触覚知覚で異なるロボット間の協調マニピュレーション能力差を克服
Built Different: Tactile Perception to Overcome Cross-Embodiment Capability Differences in Collaborative Manipulation
触覚センサと行動クローニングを用いて、トルクセンシングのないロボットでも力強い協調作業を可能にするポリシーを学習し、異なる機体間で転移できることを示した。
著者: William van den Bogert, Madhavan Iyengar, Nima Fazeli
分類: cs.RO, cs.LG
原文アブストラクト
Tactile sensing is a widely-studied means of implicit communication between robot and human. In this paper, we investigate how tactile sensing can help bridge differences between robotic embodiments in the context of collaborative manipulation. For a robot, learning and executing force-rich collaboration require compliance to human interaction. While compliance is often achieved with admittance control, many commercial robots lack the joint torque monitoring needed for such control. To address this challenge, we present an approach that uses tactile sensors and behavior cloning to transfer policies from robots with these capabilities to those without. We train a single policy that demonstrates positive transfer across embodiments, including robots without torque sensing. We demonstrate this positive transfer on four different tactile-enabled embodiments using the same policy trained on force-controlled robot data. Across multiple proposed metrics, the best performance came from a decomposed tactile shear-field representation combined with a pre-trained encoder, which improved success rates over alternative representations.
