Robustness for Free: Quality-Diversity Driven Discovery of Agile Soft Robotic Gaits
Soft robotics aims to develop robots able to adapt their behavior across a wide range of unstructured and unknown environments. A critical challenge of soft robotic control is that nonlinear dynamics often result in complex behaviors hard to model and predict. Typically behaviors for mobile soft robots are discovered through empirical trial and error and hand-tuning. More recently, optimization algorithms such as Genetic Algorithms (GA) have been used to discover gaits, but these behaviors are often optimized for a single environment or terrain, and can be brittle to unplanned changes to terrain. In this paper we demonstrate how Quality Diversity Algorithms, which search of a range of high-performing behaviors, can produce repertoires of gaits that are robust to changing terrains. This robustness significantly out-performs that of gaits produced by a single objective optimization algorithm.
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