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Yuval Tassa 2f1843f4a7 Redesign the dcmotor controller: setpoint inputs, torque-space gains.
The dcmotor input block is any subset of the canonical list [pos, vel,
ff, voltage], selected with input="pos vel ff voltage" and recorded as
mjtCtrlInput bits in actuator_ctrlspec like pid. Tokens are required in
canonical order: the attribute denotes a set, the block always packs
canonically, and accepting permutations invites reading the string as a
layout choice. The mode flag in gainprm[8] is retired (reserved,
written 0).

Controller gains are now in torque space, as for pid: the controller
commands tau = kp*(q*-l) + kd*(v*-ldot) + ki*x_I + tau_ff over the
present inputs (absent setpoints frozen at zero) and converts to drive
voltage V = R/K * tau + K*ldot. The second term compensates back-EMF,
as the current loop of a real torque-mode driver does (torque commands
are current commands): commanded torque is delivered exactly until a
limit binds, and the torque-speed envelope emerges from the Vmax clamp.
The map uses the nameplate R: thermal resistance growth is not
compensated, so a hot motor under-delivers by R/R(T). A stateless
setpoint dcmotor now matches <pid> exactly, for any K and R; the old
back-EMF droop remains available as the physical behavior of the raw
voltage path. Voltage-space datasheet gains convert by K/R. Controller
inputs require a positive motor constant (the map divides by K), and
controller gains require a controller input.

ff and voltage are distinct inputs, different in kind: ff is a torque
feedforward added to the controller output, uniform with pid's ff
(feedforward in the actuator's output space), while voltage is the raw
terminal voltage of the physical device, injected downstream of the
controller and its Vmax clamp, unclamped (ctrlrange bounds it if
desired). input="voltage" is the default: the plain voltage-commanded
motor, whose behavior is unchanged by this commit. The integrator
always accumulates position error; the old velocity mode's integral
term, ki*(int(u)dt - theta), which tracked the integral of the velocity
command, is retired without replacement, keeping ki mode-independent --
commanded integrated velocity belongs to an integrator activation
state, not to controller gains. slewmax rate-limits the first controller
input -- position setpoint (rad/s), velocity setpoint (rad/s^2) or torque
feedforward (N*m/s), each a real driver feature (reference ramping,
ramped-velocity and ramped-torque input modes); the raw voltage input
is never rate-limited and slewmax requires a controller input.

input="none" selects the empty signature: the actuator owns no controls
at all (nu = 0 is now legal with actuators present) and is purely
passive -- LuGre friction, cogging and back-EMF braking as passive
joint forces. This exists because auxiliary dynamic states (the LuGre
bristle) attach to actuators, not joints. The terminal voltage is
identically zero, i.e. a shorted motor (dynamic braking); motorconst=0
decouples the electrical branch. mjINPUT_NONE is a distinct enum value
because ctrlspec = 0 means "unset, use the type default". History and
delay require an input; the controller voltage override and input read
in mj_fwdActuation are gated on a nonempty block.

The analytic velocity derivative of the controller becomes
dV/dw = -kd*R/K + K, whose second term cancels the back-EMF bias
exactly: the net damping of an unclipped torque-mode motor is -kd, and
of a voltage-mode or passive motor -K^2/R. Viewers label inputs via
mj_actuatorInputName: pos, vel, ff, voltage.

The dcmotor LaTeX design doc is updated accordingly: torque-space
units, the tau->V map and its saturation-generated envelope, the
input-block pipeline figure, and a Passive Operation section.

PiperOrigin-RevId: 965795351
Change-Id: Ibc308ca21bd6bad014e77f950ee08feaad449b73
2026-08-17 00:43:48 -07:00
Yuval Tassa 7fd2061f5c Change default light softness from 0 to 0.2.
PiperOrigin-RevId: 960218397
Change-Id: I58f211f5a275f8f19254424facd02c14eaa8c668
2026-08-06 04:28:17 -07:00
Alessio Quaglino 1362a8bded Move BVH active visualization flag reset after early return check in MuJoCo collision driver.
This avoids unnecessarily resetting the bvh_active flags when the collision driver returns early due to disabled constraints, disabled contacts, or having fewer than two bodies/flexes.

PiperOrigin-RevId: 959531283
Change-Id: I85caf054b06e3be1018d710f9ab762627fc3356a
2026-08-05 02:41:46 -07:00
Yuval Tassa f9a00bd5b5 Add light softness: spotlight edge softness for physically-based rendering.
The new spotlight attribute softness (real in [0, 1], default 0) is the
fraction of the cone, measured inward from the cutoff, over which
intensity falls to zero. It is used by physically-based lighting models;
the Phong model's corresponding knob remains exponent.

The filament renderer previously hardcoded the inner cone angle to 0,
making the entire beam penumbra: the shader attenuates by the squared
smoothstep ((cos(theta) - cos(outer)) / (cos(inner) - cos(outer)))^2, so
a cutoff-25 spot delivered its rated candela only exactly on-axis and
about a third of it averaged over the light pool, with the deficit
shrinking as the cutoff widens. The inner angle is now
(1 - softness) * cutoff, so at the default the light delivers its full
intensity everywhere inside the cone and illuminance follows E = I/d^2
independent of the cutoff. Setting softness to 1 reproduces the previous
appearance exactly (verified bit-identical), which is the migration path
for models tuned against the old behavior.

The filament light type also changes from FOCUSED_SPOT to SPOT. With
intensity given in candela and the cone set at build time the two types
produce identical output (FOCUSED_SPOT's power-conserving rescale only
applies when the cone changes after the intensity is set), but SPOT
guarantees that candela never rescales with cone angle should the cone
ever become runtime-editable.

Verified with headless renders under a linear tone mapper against an
equal-candela point light at cutoffs 25/45/80: softness 0 gives
spot/point luminance ratio 1.000 at all sampled angles inside the cone;
softness 0.2 is flat over the inner 80% of the cone; softness 1 matches
the previous renderer with zero linear-pixel difference. XML round-trip
and the [0, 1] compile-time check verified. Introspect and wasm bindings
regenerated.

PiperOrigin-RevId: 959334706
Change-Id: I0f0729781899880de1729ea9b3d8c055d715a025
2026-08-04 18:11:48 -07:00
Yuval Tassa 9553926158 Save flex node coordinates in the new nodecoord attribute.
Interpolated flexes with pinned nodes could not be reloaded after saving:
pinned nodes share their parent body, and their positions within it lived
only in mjsFlex.node, which had no MJCF attribute. On reload the pinned
nodes collapsed onto the parent body origin, degenerating the trilinear
interpolation grid ("flex grid rotation R0 is not orthonormal"). This
made model/flex/strain.xml and gripper_trilinear.xml fail to round-trip.

Add flex/nodecoord, real(3*nnode), the node analog of flex/vertex: local
node coordinates within the corresponding body frames. The reader picks
it up from the regenerated schema tables; the writer emits it with the
precision-aware WriteVector, since VectorToString ignores the XML
precision setting and truncating node coordinates to 6 digits while body
positions carry 17 fails the R0 orthonormality check at full precision.

Add a WritesPinnedFlexNodes round-trip regression test, and remove the
two write-read sweep exclusions documenting this bug. The removed
substring filter "strain" was also matching core_constraint, silently
excluding that entire testdata directory from the sweep; its ~40 models
are now covered and pass.

PiperOrigin-RevId: 959025281
Change-Id: I2fed28c01491c5a8431e813102a423d12b659911
2026-08-04 08:04:27 -07:00
Yuval Tassa 574b6bd6bf More schema-related cleanup.
- Declare every nonzero default; make the defaults cross-check total.
- Skip default-valued attributes in the hand-written writer paths.
- Fix type facts on hand-read elements, found by the dm_control diff.

PiperOrigin-RevId: 958999733
Change-Id: I3064ccc6ae1f049c20f273abc234cd02990a8b7e
2026-08-04 07:05:41 -07:00
Yuval Tassa 1e3c8f3f91 Add XSD schema.
Fixes #6, #3237, #3410

PiperOrigin-RevId: 958922477
Change-Id: Ia68e10be06d7c880b6a095edcc79572ee8b6f50e
2026-08-04 03:32:24 -07:00