Add geom adhesion: contacts that pull, via translated friction cones.

https://youtu.be/GioWwB36XHI

The new geom attribute adhesion (units of force, signed; pair-level
override) translates the contact friction cone along its normal so
that the force origin lies strictly inside it. Consequences: each
contact can pull with up to the given force before breaking, and the
tangential friction budget becomes mu*(f_N + adhesion) -- the
Mohr-Coulomb yield condition with cohesion c = mu*adhesion -- so
lightly-squeezed grasps retain a guaranteed friction floor.

A translated cone factors exactly into {constant attractive force}
+ {original cone}, so no solver kernels change. The implementation is
this factorization: a constant attraction along contact normals
accumulated into the new mjData.qfrc_adhesion (summed into
qfrc_passive), plus a bias of adhesive contact rows' reference
acceleration (aref += R*adhesion), which makes resting penetration
exactly independent of adhesion. Contacts of adhesive pairs remain
active throughout the gap zone, producing rows with positive violation
whose reference acceleration pulls: a tether that resists pull-off
smoothly, captures objects released within the band into steady
contact, and detaches at the specified force. Adhesion values of the
two geoms combine by sum; explicit pairs override.

mj_contactForce reports the net interface force (cone force minus the
adhesive pull), whose normal component can now be negative. Negative
adhesion is allowed and produces a repulsive offset (air hockey).

PiperOrigin-RevId: 950858148
Change-Id: I879c08eba7ae501e5c0f8c2f807167344da4c2bc
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Yuval Tassa
2026-07-20 08:35:17 -07:00
committed by Copybara-Service
parent b942c9f922
commit a264d0bc8b
28 changed files with 784 additions and 50 deletions
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@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ typedef struct mjContact_ { // result of collision detection functions
mjtNum solref[mjNREF]; // constraint solver reference, normal direction
mjtNum solreffriction[mjNREF]; // constraint solver reference, friction directions
mjtNum solimp[mjNIMP]; // constraint solver impedance
mjtNum adhesion; // adhesive force along the contact normal
// internal storage used by solver
mjtNum mu; // friction of regularized cone, set by mj_makeConstraint
@@ -287,6 +288,7 @@ typedef struct mjData_ {
mjtNum* qfrc_damper; // passive damper force (nv x 1)
mjtNum* qfrc_gravcomp; // passive gravity compensation force (nv x 1)
mjtNum* qfrc_fluid; // passive fluid force (nv x 1)
mjtNum* qfrc_adhesion; // passive contact adhesion force (nv x 1)
mjtNum* qfrc_passive; // total passive force (nv x 1)
// computed by mj_sensorVel/mj_subtreeVel if needed