2 papers
cs.RO2025
Differentiable Simulation of Hard Contacts with Soft Gradients for Learning and Control
Anselm Paulus, A. René Geist, Pierre Schumacher +3
Contact forces introduce discontinuities into robot dynamics that severely limit the use of simulators for gradient-based optimization. Penalty-based simulators such as MuJoCo, sof…
cs.RO2025
A Smooth Analytical Formulation of Collision Detection and Rigid Body Dynamics With Contact
Onur Beker, Nico Gürtler, Ji Shi +4
Generating intelligent robot behavior in contact-rich settings is a research problem where zeroth-order methods currently prevail. A major contributor to the success of such method…