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Model Predictive Control of Tensegrity Robots via Contact-Aware Graph Neural Dynamics Model

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 8, 2026 · UTC

Tensegrity robots offer lightweight, compliant mobility over challenging terrain but remain difficult to model and control due to complex contact-rich dynamics and partial observability. This work presents a model predictive path integral (MPPI) controller for a three-bar tensegrity robot driven by a learned graph neural network (GNN) dynamics model. This work first extends prior GNN-based models with a differentiable contact detection module. The extension allows the dynamics model to reason over non-horizontal planar terrains, obstacles, as well as self-collisions. Then, the learned dynamics

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