Real-World Deployment of Massively Parallel Sampling-Based MPC for Contact-Rich Manipulation

arXiv:2606.20712v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sampling-based Model Predictive Control (SMPC) is a promising strategy for contact-rich robotic manipulation, combining gradient-free optimization with massively parallel GPU simulation. Yet, most prior work relies on simplified dynamics or remains confined to simulation. We present an MPC framework that leverages JAX for large-scale parallelization and efficient computation, coupled with the high-fidelity MuJoCo MJX simulator, and deploy it on a F...