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AUGMENTING EXPERIMENT

WITH SIMULATION IN
MACHINE LEARNING
AUGMENTING EXPERIMENTS WITH SYNTHETIC DATA UNCOVERS ORDER IN CRUMPLED SHEETS
JORDAN HOFFMANN, YOHAI BAR-SINAI, LISA LEE, JOVANA ANDREJEVIC, SHRUTI MISHRA, SHMUEL M.
RUBINSTEIN, AND CHRIS H. RYCROFT
CRUMPLING EXPERIMENTS

• Mylar sheet rolled int 3cm diameter cylinder and compressed uniaxially to
specified depth within a cylindrical container
• Damage networks, that is crease patterns appear
• Creased sheet is scanned and ridges and valleys are extracted using a laser
profilometer
• Process is repeated 4 to 24 times
• Experimental process is expensive
CRUMPLED
MYLAR SHEET
FLAT FOLDED
MYLAR SHEET
IN SILICO FLAT
FOLDED MYLAR
SHEET
GOVERNING THEOREMS ON FLAT
FOLDING SHEETS

• Maekawa’s theorem
• Creases cannot begin or terminate in the interior of a sheet—they must either
reach the boundary or create closed loops
• The number of ridge and valley creases that meet at each vertex differs by two

• Kawasaki’s theorem
• Alternating sector angles must sum to π
LIMITED KNOWLEDGE ON CRUMPLING
PHENOMENA

• Limited theoretical understanding


• Limited knowledge on spatial correlation of crease locations

• Experiments are time and labor intensive


• Experimental data is limited
STATISTICAL CHALLENGE

Separating ridges from valleys, can a neural network be trained to accurately


recover the location of ridges, presented only with the location of the valleys?

Deep Neural
Network -
Segnet
RESULTS USING EXPERIMENTAL DATA
ALONE

Prediction was poor as the neural net overfit the input data and thus was a bad predictor
PREDICTION AS FUNCTION OF IN SILICO
DATA
PREDICTION AS FUNCTION OF IN SILICO
DATA
PREDICTION AS FUNCTION OF PERTUBED IN
SILICO DATA (VIOLATING RULES)
PREDICTION AS FUNCTION OF PERTUBED IN
SILICO DATA (VIOLATING RULES)
CONCLUSION

• Machine learning predictability can be improved by augmenting limited


experimental results with simulated data

• Since the perturbed in silico data violating the rules performed worse than the
unperturbed, this suggests that there is a hidden statistical similarity between
crumpled sheets and flat folded sheets

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