Context-Aware Deep Lagrangian Networks for Model Predictive Control

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15249v3
• Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2025 14:10:22 GMT
• Title: Context-Aware Deep Lagrangian Networks for Model Predictive Control
• Authors: Lucas Schulze, Jan Peters, Oleg Arenz,
• Abstract summary: In this work, we extend Deep Lagrangian Networks (DeLaN) to make it context-aware.<n>We also combine DeLaN with a residual dynamics model to leverage the fact that a nominal model of the robot is typically available.<n>Our method reduces the end-effector tracking error by 39%, compared to a 21% improvement achieved by a baseline.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Controlling a robot based on physics-consistent dynamic models, such as Deep Lagrangian Networks (DeLaN), can improve the generalizability and interpretability of the resulting behavior. However, in complex environments, the number of objects to potentially interact with is vast, and their physical properties are often uncertain. This complexity makes it infeasible to employ a single global model. Therefore, we need to resort to online system identification of context-aware models that capture only the currently relevant aspects of the environment. While physical principles such as the conservation of energy may not hold across varying contexts, ensuring physical plausibility for any individual context-aware model can still be highly desirable, particularly when using it for receding horizon control methods such as model predictive control (MPC). Hence, in this work, we extend DeLaN to make it context-aware, combine it with a recurrent network for online system identification, and integrate it with an MPC for adaptive, physics-consistent control. We also combine DeLaN with a residual dynamics model to leverage the fact that a nominal model of the robot is typically available. We evaluate our method on a 7-DOF robot arm for trajectory tracking under varying loads. Our method reduces the end-effector tracking error by 39%, compared to a 21% improvement achieved by a baseline that uses an extended Kalman filter.

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