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| author | Islam, Sharfin He, Zhanpeng Ciocarlie, Matei |
| author_facet | Islam, Sharfin He, Zhanpeng Ciocarlie, Matei |
| contents | Underactuated manipulators reduce the number of bulky motors, thereby enabling compact and mechanically robust designs. However, fewer actuators than joints means that the manipulator can only access a specific manifold within the joint space, which is particular to a given hardware configuration and can be low-dimensional and/or discontinuous. Determining an appropriate set of hardware parameters for this class of mechanisms, therefore, is difficult - even for traditional task-based co-optimization methods. In this paper, our goal is to implement a task-based design and policy co-optimization method for underactuated, tendon-driven manipulators. We first formulate a general model for an underactuated, tendon-driven transmission. We then use this model to co-optimize a three-link, two-actuator kinematic chain using reinforcement learning. We demonstrate that our optimized tendon transmission and control policy can be transferred reliably to physical hardware with real-world reaching experiments. |
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| spellingShingle | Task-Based Design and Policy Co-Optimization for Tendon-driven Underactuated Kinematic Chains Islam, Sharfin He, Zhanpeng Ciocarlie, Matei Robotics Underactuated manipulators reduce the number of bulky motors, thereby enabling compact and mechanically robust designs. However, fewer actuators than joints means that the manipulator can only access a specific manifold within the joint space, which is particular to a given hardware configuration and can be low-dimensional and/or discontinuous. Determining an appropriate set of hardware parameters for this class of mechanisms, therefore, is difficult - even for traditional task-based co-optimization methods. In this paper, our goal is to implement a task-based design and policy co-optimization method for underactuated, tendon-driven manipulators. We first formulate a general model for an underactuated, tendon-driven transmission. We then use this model to co-optimize a three-link, two-actuator kinematic chain using reinforcement learning. We demonstrate that our optimized tendon transmission and control policy can be transferred reliably to physical hardware with real-world reaching experiments. |
| title | Task-Based Design and Policy Co-Optimization for Tendon-driven Underactuated Kinematic Chains |
| topic | Robotics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.14566 |