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RL-Sim-Framework/assets/rotary_cartpole/robot.yaml
Victor Mylle b37cd26690 feat: sim2real domain randomization + reward fixes for rotary cartpole
Close the sim2real gap for the Furuta pendulum (swings up but can't
balance on hardware). Root causes were (a) no domain randomization, so
the policy overfit one deterministic sim instance, and (b) reward design
flaws that produced degenerate policies.

Domain randomization (runner-level, backend-agnostic):
- BaseRunner: domain_rand config; per-env action-delay buffer (latency),
  Gaussian qpos/qvel sensor noise, per-env dynamics-scale sampling
  (friction/damping/torque), resampled per episode. Sensor noise per step.
- privileged_obs/privileged_dim expose normalized DR factors (mu) for RMA.
- step() now uses clean state for reward/termination, noisy state for the
  observation the policy sees.
- MuJoCoRunner: applies per-env friction/damping/torque scales.
- robot.py: compute_motor_force gains friction/damping scale args.
- Configs: DR blocks for mujoco (full) and mjx (delay+noise); clean
  defaults for mujoco_single/serial; noise/delay anchored to recordings.

Reward fixes (rotary_cartpole):
- Shift upright reward to [0,1] (was [-1,1]) + alive_bonus, so surviving
  always beats ending early (kills the "suicide into the limit" policy).
- Add balance_bonus * upright * stillness so reward requires upright AND
  near-zero pendulum velocity (kills the "spin in full loops" policy).

Deploy:
- eval.py load_policy reconstructs the history/adaptation encoder
  (auto-detects its dim from the checkpoint) so DR+embedding policies load.

Fixes:
- MuJoCoRunner._sim_reset referenced self._env (typo) -> self.env, which
  was breaking every rotary-cartpole reset.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-09 20:48:25 +02:00

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# Tuned robot config — generated by src.sysid.optimize
urdf: rotary_cartpole.urdf
actuators:
- joint: motor_joint
type: motor
gear: [0.424182, 0.425031] # torque constant [pos, neg] (motor sysid)
ctrl_range: [-0.592, 0.592] # effective control bound (sysid-tuned)
deadzone: [0.141291, 0.078015] # L298N min |ctrl| for torque [pos, neg]
damping: [0.002027, 0.014665] # viscous damping [pos, neg]
frictionloss: [0.057328, 0.053355] # Coulomb friction [pos, neg]
filter_tau: 0.005035 # 1st-order actuator filter (motor sysid)
viscous_quadratic: 0.000285 # velocity² drag
back_emf_gain: 0.006758 # back-EMF torque reduction
joints:
motor_joint:
armature: 0.002773 # reflected rotor inertia (motor sysid)
frictionloss: 0.0 # handled by motor model via qfrc_applied
pendulum_joint:
damping: 0.000119
frictionloss: 1.0e-05