Adaptation to damages and in-situ physical repairs
of narrowly defined and well-anticipated bounds. In this work we
proprioceptively adapt to catastrophic damage in soft-actuated
systems in under one minute. Architected materials are well
equipped for adaptation: actuator failure occurs gradually rather
than acutely, and damage can be described in a low-dimensional,
discrete coordinate space. Surprisingly, latent damage representations plus a simple yet robust ensemble method is sufficient
for adapting to unseen damage in real-time. Moreover, we
identify conditions under which exponential sample complexity
collapses to linear sample complexity for learned representations of architected materials, a concrete advantage over rigid
components or continuum soft mechanisms. We demonstrate
LEAP, our method for adaptive proprioception, via a tracing
task for a 6DoF soft wrist based on Handed Shearing Auxetic
(HSA) actuators. Our algorithm is able to adapt to cuts, burns,
and actuator repairs, enabling simulation-free real-time adaptation
that is critical for realizing the promise of soft robots outside the lab.