Journal
NONLINEAR DYNAMICS
Volume 94, Issue 3, Pages 1933-1948Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11071-018-4466-9
Keywords
Gait optimization; Locomotion; Geometric mechanics; Oscillator; Data-driven floquet analysis
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Funding
- National Science Foundation under Civil, Mechanical and Manufacturing Innovation grant [1653220]
- Army Research Office grant [W911NF-14-1-0573]
- Rackham Merit Fellowship
- Div Of Civil, Mechanical, & Manufact Inn
- Directorate For Engineering [1653220] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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The study of optimal motion of animals or robots often involves seeking optimality over a space of cyclic shape changes, or gaits, specified using a large number of parameters. We show a data-driven method for computing the gradient of a cost functional with respect to a large number of gait parameters by employing geometric properties of the dynamics to efficiently construct a local model of the system, and then using this model to rapidly compute the gradients. Our modeling step specifically applies to systems governed by connection-like models from geometric mechanics, which encompass a number of high-friction regimes. We demonstrate using our method for optimizing gaits under noisy, experiment-like conditions by simulating planar multi-segment serpent-like swimmers in a low Reynolds number (viscous friction) environment. Our optimization results recover known results for 3-segment swimmers with a 66 dimensional gait parameterization, and extend to optimizing the motion of a 9 segment swimmer with a 264 dimensional gait space, using only 30 simulation trials of 30 gait cycles each. The data-driven geometric gait optimization approach we present is designed to operate on noisy, stochastically perturbed dynamicsas noisy and variable as experimental dataand efficiently optimize a large number of parameters. We believe this approach has the potential to significantly advance our ability to optimize robot gaits with hardware in the loop and to study the optimality of animal gaits with respect to hypothesized cost functions.
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