PAINT: 脚式ロボットによるパートナー非依存・意図認識型協調運搬
PAINT: Partner-Agnostic Intent-Aware Cooperative Transport with Legged Robots
脚式ロボットがパートナーの意図を proprioceptive 情報から推定し、地形に頑健な歩容と組み合わせて協調運搬を行う軽量な階層学習フレームワークを提案。多様な地形・荷物・パートナーでの実験で有効性を示した。
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著者: Zhihao Cao, Tianxu An, Chenhao Li, Stelian Coros, Marco Hutter
分類: cs.RO
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Collaborative transport requires robots to infer partner intent through physical interaction while maintaining stable loco-manipulation. This becomes particularly challenging in complex environments, where interaction signals are difficult to capture and model. We present PAINT, a lightweight yet efficient hierarchical learning framework for partner-agonistic intent-aware collaborative legged transport that infers partner intent directly from proprioceptive feedback. PAINT decouples intent understanding from terrain-robust locomotion: A high-level policy infers the partner interaction wrench using an intent estimator and a teacher-student training scheme, while a low-level locomotion backbone ensures robust execution. This enables lightweight deployment without external force-torque sensing or payload tracking. Extensive simulation and real-world experiments demonstrate compliant cooperative transport across diverse terrains, payloads, and partners. Furthermore, we show that PAINT naturally scales to decentralized multi-robot transport and transfers across robot embodiments by swapping the underlying locomotion backbone. Our results suggest that proprioceptive signals in payload-coupled interaction provide a scalable interface for partner-agnostic intent-aware collaborative transport.
