MonoForce: Learnable Image-conditioned Physics Engine

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2502.10156v2
• Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:03:11 GMT
• Title: MonoForce: Learnable Image-conditioned Physics Engine
• Authors: Ruslan Agishev, Karel Zimmermann,
• Abstract summary: We propose a novel model for the prediction of robot trajectories on rough offroad terrain from the onboard camera images. The proposed hybrid model integrates a black-box component that predicts robot-terrain interaction forces with a neural-symbolic layer. The differentiability, in conjunction with the rapid simulation speed, makes the model well-suited for various applications.
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• Abstract: We propose a novel model for the prediction of robot trajectories on rough offroad terrain from the onboard camera images. This model enforces the laws of classical mechanics through a physics-aware neural symbolic layer while preserving the ability to learn from large-scale data as it is end-to-end differentiable. The proposed hybrid model integrates a black-box component that predicts robot-terrain interaction forces with a neural-symbolic layer. This layer includes a differentiable physics engine that computes the robot's trajectory by querying these forces at the points of contact with the terrain. As the proposed architecture comprises substantial geometrical and physics priors, the resulting model can also be seen as a learnable physics engine conditioned on real images that delivers $10^4$ trajectories per second. We argue and empirically demonstrate that this architecture reduces the sim-to-real gap and mitigates out-of-distribution sensitivity. The differentiability, in conjunction with the rapid simulation speed, makes the model well-suited for various applications including model predictive control, trajectory shooting, supervised and reinforcement learning or SLAM. The codes and data are publicly available.

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