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Main Authors: Ali, Matsive, Giri, Sandesh, Liu, Sen, Yang, Qin
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Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.18016
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author Ali, Matsive
Giri, Sandesh
Liu, Sen
Yang, Qin
author_facet Ali, Matsive
Giri, Sandesh
Liu, Sen
Yang, Qin
contents With the rapid development of deep reinforcement learning technology, it gradually demonstrates excellent potential and is becoming the most promising solution in the robotics. However, in the smart manufacturing domain, there is still not too much research involved in dynamic adaptive control mechanisms optimizing complex processes. This research advances the integration of Soft Actor-Critic (SAC) with digital twins for industrial robotics applications, providing a framework for enhanced adaptive real-time control for smart additive manufacturing processing. The system architecture combines Unity's simulation environment with ROS2 for seamless digital twin synchronization, while leveraging transfer learning to efficiently adapt trained models across tasks. We demonstrate our methodology using a Viper X300s robot arm with the proposed hierarchical reward structure to address the common reinforcement learning challenges in two distinct control scenarios. The results show rapid policy convergence and robust task execution in both simulated and physical environments demonstrating the effectiveness of our approach.
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spellingShingle Digital Twin Synchronization: Bridging the Sim-RL Agent to a Real-Time Robotic Additive Manufacturing Control
Ali, Matsive
Giri, Sandesh
Liu, Sen
Yang, Qin
Robotics
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Systems and Control
With the rapid development of deep reinforcement learning technology, it gradually demonstrates excellent potential and is becoming the most promising solution in the robotics. However, in the smart manufacturing domain, there is still not too much research involved in dynamic adaptive control mechanisms optimizing complex processes. This research advances the integration of Soft Actor-Critic (SAC) with digital twins for industrial robotics applications, providing a framework for enhanced adaptive real-time control for smart additive manufacturing processing. The system architecture combines Unity's simulation environment with ROS2 for seamless digital twin synchronization, while leveraging transfer learning to efficiently adapt trained models across tasks. We demonstrate our methodology using a Viper X300s robot arm with the proposed hierarchical reward structure to address the common reinforcement learning challenges in two distinct control scenarios. The results show rapid policy convergence and robust task execution in both simulated and physical environments demonstrating the effectiveness of our approach.
title Digital Twin Synchronization: Bridging the Sim-RL Agent to a Real-Time Robotic Additive Manufacturing Control
topic Robotics
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Systems and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.18016