APEX-RBD: ハードウェア効率的なロボット動力学アクセラレータ設計のための混合精度探索フレームワーク
APEX-RBD: Mixed-Precision Exploration Framework for Hardware-Efficient Robot Dynamics Accelerator Design
剛体動力学計算のハードウェアアクセラレータ設計において、変数の感度差を考慮した混合精度探索を効率化する自動フレームワークを提案し、面積と消費電力を大幅に削減する構成を発見した。
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著者: Xingyu Liu, Hanwei Fan, Chaofang Ma, Jiawei Liang, Guangyu Hu, Jiang Xu, Wei Zhang
分類: cs.AR, cs.RO
原文アブストラクト
Rigid Body Dynamics (RBD) forms the computational core of real-time robotic control, but its immense computational complexity creates a performance bottleneck that necessitates dedicated hardware accelerators. However, the substantial hardware resource and power costs of these accelerators make their deployment on resource-constrained edge platforms highly challenging. While quantization offers a promising path to optimize RBD hardware for edge computing, existing uniform-precision approaches remain inefficient by ignoring the diverse quantization sensitivities of different variables. Although mixed-precision offers a superior alternative, its exploration is intractable due to a vast search space and the prohibitive cost of closed-loop simulation for motion accuracy evaluation. To address these challenges, we introduce APEX-RBD, an automated framework that makes mixed-precision exploration computationally tractable while effectively identifying hardware-efficient configurations. Specifically, it performs physics-driven search space pruning via variable grouping and sensitivity analysis, and employs a data-efficient, prior-informed surrogate model to enable rapid trajectory error prediction. This formulation guides a hybrid optimizer to identify area- and power-efficient designs under user-defined accuracy and performance constraints. Experimental results demonstrate that APEX-RBD discovers designs achieving up to 1.9$\times$ area reduction and 1.8$\times$ power savings compared to uniform-precision baselines across diverse robotic platforms.