TacGooseBumps：せん断符号化を追加したノーマル触覚センサによる接触の多いマニピュレーション学習
TacGooseBumps (TacGB): Retrofitting Normal-Only Tactile Sensors with Shear Encoding for Learning Contact-Rich Manipulation
既存の法線力のみの触覚センサに受動的なドーム状フィルムを追加し、せん断力を圧力パターンの変化として符号化することで、接触の多いマニピュレーションの模倣学習性能を向上させた研究。
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著者: Wenjie Li, Binyu Yang, Yuxin Chen, Ambrose Wang, Masayoshi Tomizuka
分類: cs.RO
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Contact-rich policies often fail because distinct physical states look alike yet require different actions. Cameras may not reveal whether a connector is aligned or fully seated, while many normal-only tactile sensors can miss the tangential interactions perpendicular to the grasping direction that distinguish these states. We ask whether a learning policy needs calibrated shear measurements, or only a repeatable observation that separates shear-dependent contact states. We introduce TacGooseBumps (TacGB), a passive domed film that mechanically encodes tangential loading as pattern changes in an existing sensor's pressure map. Tangential loading tilts each dome and redistributes pressure across its footprint; an end-to-end policy consumes the resulting maps without added electronics, force reconstruction, or taxel-level dome alignment. Across four imitation-learning tasks and two data-collection pipelines, TacGB improves goal attainment, efficiency, and contact quality: insertion success increases by up to 36 percentage points, and successful insertions are completed faster, while fragile-object placement becomes gentler and drawing becomes more continuous and straight. Signal, stage-wise, failure-mode, and trajectory analyses link these gains to contact regimes in which task-relevant tangential interactions are poorly resolved by vision and normal pressure alone. Together, these results show that shear need not be measured metrically to benefit robot learning; it can instead be mechanically encoded without changing the underlying tactile sensor or the policy's pressure-map input format.
