盲目の巧みさ:純粋な自己受容感覚による全身ヒューマノイド操作
Blind Dexterity: Whole-Body Humanoid Manipulation via Pure Proprioception
カメラや触覚センサーを使わず、関節エンコーダのみの自己受容感覚でUnitree G1ヒューマノイドが全身操作タスク(歩行、ボールトラップ、スーツケース持ち上げ、スケートボード搭乗)を達成できることを示した論文。接触による関節読み取り値の変化が全身触覚チャネルとして機能することを明らかにした。
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著者: Aditya Bhatt, Oleg Kaidanov, Puze Liu, Jan Peters
分類: cs.RO
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We present blind, whole-body manipulation skills on a Unitree G1 humanoid using only onboard proprioception, without cameras, markers, force-torque, or tactile sensors. Despite this minimal sensing, the trained policies exhibit surprising capability across qualitatively different tasks: push-resilient bipedal walking without IMU feedback, active soccer ball trapping with a foot, seeking and lifting a suitcase by its handle, and mounting a randomly positioned skateboard. We argue that these capabilities arise from a key underappreciated signal: the way the joint encoder readouts evolve under purposeful compliant contact, effectively forming a whole-body tactile channel. By generating contact-rich motions, the trained policies actively probe the environment; as a result, task-relevant object state (e.g., pose) becomes increasingly decodable from short proprioceptive histories. We expose this information using compact task-specific state estimators trained alongside, but fully separately from, the policies; their prediction errors decrease rapidly after informative contact. Our results indicate that joint encoder-based proprioception, combined with compliant actuation (now widely available on commercial robots and low-cost motors) is already a strong, practical substrate for whole-body dexterous manipulation and interactive perception, and therefore a natural foundation on which richer sensing can be layered.