Geometric Contact Flows: Contactomorphisms for Dynamics and Control

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17868v1
• Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2025 01:52:21 GMT
• Title: Geometric Contact Flows: Contactomorphisms for Dynamics and Control
• Authors: Andrea Testa, Søren Hauberg, Tamim Asfour, Leonel Rozo,
• Abstract summary: This paper introduces Geometric Contact Flows (GFC), a novel framework to learn complex systems.<n>GFC constructs a latent contact Hamiltonian model encoding desirable properties like stability or energy conservation.<n>Experiments on learning dynamics for physical systems and for controlling robots on interaction tasks demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach.
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• Abstract: Accurately modeling and predicting complex dynamical systems, particularly those involving force exchange and dissipation, is crucial for applications ranging from fluid dynamics to robotics, but presents significant challenges due to the intricate interplay of geometric constraints and energy transfer. This paper introduces Geometric Contact Flows (GFC), a novel framework leveraging Riemannian and Contact geometry as inductive biases to learn such systems. GCF constructs a latent contact Hamiltonian model encoding desirable properties like stability or energy conservation. An ensemble of contactomorphisms then adapts this model to the target dynamics while preserving these properties. This ensemble allows for uncertainty-aware geodesics that attract the system's behavior toward the data support, enabling robust generalization and adaptation to unseen scenarios. Experiments on learning dynamics for physical systems and for controlling robots on interaction tasks demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach.

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