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RAM: Reachability Across Morphologies

arXiv 2606.09108 ↗First posted 8 Jun 2026cs.RO cs.LGcited by 0

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Abstract (arXiv)

Many stages of the robotic lifecycle, from morphology synthesis to operation, rely fundamentally on the reachable workspace. However, current methods for approximating workspaces are slow, imprecise, or tied to a single morphology. We introduce Reachability Across Morphologies (RAM): a morphology-conditioned, implicit neural representation that acts as a fast, differentiable surrogate for pose reachability, generalising to unseen morphologies while inherently accounting for self-collisions. To train RAM, we publish a large-scale dataset of 3·1010 samples generated solely from forward kinematics. Experiments show that our model achieves an F1-score of 86% at nanosecond inference, outperforming the baseline by 14% while reducing inference time by three orders of magnitude. We further demonstrate speed-ups of one and two orders of magnitude for gradient-based morphology and trajectory optimisation, respectively. Website: https://timwalter.github.io/ram.

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