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Alessio Quaglino f9f1db1e0a Replace the banded Cholesky solver for implicit flex interpolation
with a preconditioned Conjugate Gradient (CG) solver that operates
on the full system matrix.

The previous approach extracted flex DOFs into a reduced banded system,
factored it separately, and overwrote the global solve. This required
precomputed bandwidth (makeFlexBandwidth), parent-joint detection,
coupling corrections, and a FlexInterpContext struct — and only worked
for standalone flex trees without parent joints.

The new CG solver uses the already-factored global system (M - h*qDeriv)
as a preconditioner and adds the flex stiffness contribution via
matrix-free products (mjd_flexInterp_mulKD/mulK). This handles any
kinematic configuration — including flexes attached to articulated
chains or with parent joints — without sparsity pattern restrictions.

Before (`bunny_multicell`):
```
 Simulation time      : 50.80 s
 Steps per second     : 197
 Realtime factor      : 0.20 x
 Time per step        : 5080.3 µs

 CG iters / step      : 3.16
 Contacts / step      : 31.04
 Constraints / step   : 124.15
 Degrees of freedom   : 178
 Dynamic memory usage : 0.4% of 100M
```

After:
```
 Simulation time      : 9.52 s
 Steps per second     : 1051
 Realtime factor      : 1.05 x
 Time per step        : 951.7 µs

 CG iters / step      : 3.21
 Contacts / step      : 30.90
 Constraints / step   : 123.61
 Degrees of freedom   : 178
 Dynamic memory usage : 0.3% of 100M
```

PiperOrigin-RevId: 913758038
Change-Id: If5aa617b2d535c86aec9bd71c9e0003a2b38bdd7
2026-05-11 10:11:51 -07:00
Alessio Quaglino a891782553 Clean-up flex assumptions.
Do not allow a mix of `elastic2d != none` with `dof = trilinear` since the latter assumes 3d elasticity.

Also, do not assume that `flex_interp > 0` in the engine. This will enable to use, e.g., `flex_interp = -1` to mean a linear surface finite element instead of a 3d finite element which is currently identified with `flex_interp = 1`.

PiperOrigin-RevId: 903852035
Change-Id: Ia6290b4a05e9e510ffb7f36d141cd525b40d3110
2026-04-22 08:01:34 -07:00
Alessio Quaglino 6c7ed66781 Implement multi-cell finite element method for interpolated flexes.
This change introduces a `flex_cellcount` field to `mjModel` to specify the number of cells in each dimension for interpolated flexes. The stiffness computation, passive force calculation, and Jacobian derivatives are updated to operate on a per-cell basis, significantly improving performance by localizing computations to the nodes within each cell.

PiperOrigin-RevId: 901216393
Change-Id: Ic23132e609de11e71bb7fef8d1f139daad2ec264
2026-04-17 04:13:19 -07:00