Jade: A Differentiable Physics Engine for Articulated Rigid Bodies with Intersection-Free Frictional Contact

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2309.04710v1
• Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2023 07:39:36 GMT
• Title: Jade: A Differentiable Physics Engine for Articulated Rigid Bodies with Intersection-Free Frictional Contact
• Authors: Gang Yang and Siyuan Luo and Lin Shao
• Abstract summary: Jade is a differentiable physics engine for articulated rigid bodies. It offers features including intersection-free collision simulation and stable LCP solutions for multiple frictional contacts.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: We present Jade, a differentiable physics engine for articulated rigid bodies. Jade models contacts as the Linear Complementarity Problem (LCP). Compared to existing differentiable simulations, Jade offers features including intersection-free collision simulation and stable LCP solutions for multiple frictional contacts. We use continuous collision detection to detect the time of impact and adopt the backtracking strategy to prevent intersection between bodies with complex geometry shapes. We derive the gradient calculation to ensure the whole simulation process is differentiable under the backtracking mechanism. We modify the popular Dantzig algorithm to get valid solutions under multiple frictional contacts. We conduct extensive experiments to demonstrate the effectiveness of our differentiable physics simulation over a variety of contact-rich tasks.

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