タスク関連特徴ダイナミクスの忠実度がロボット超音波走査のゼロショットsim-to-real転送を可能にする
Task-Relevant Feature-Dynamics Fidelity Enables Zero-Shot Sim-to-Real Transfer for Robotic Ultrasound Scanning
シミュレーションと実機の間で、プローブ動作に伴うタスク関連の特徴変化の一貫性(TR-FDF)を保つことで、実機データなしで訓練したポリシーが高成功率でゼロショット転送できることを示した。
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著者: Yizhao Qian, Jiayuan Luo, Wanyi Zhu, Yameng Zhang, Max Q. -H. Meng, Yixuan Yuan, Li Liu
分類: cs.RO
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Robotic ultrasound policies operating directly on B-mode images require extensive interaction data, whereas real-robot data collection is costly and safety-constrained. Simulation provides a scalable alternative, but zero-shot transfer depends not only on single-frame realism but also on whether simulated observations reproduce task-relevant feature changes induced by probe motion. We term this cross-domain consistency task-relevant feature-dynamics fidelity (TR-FDF). Under local regularity assumptions, our contraction analysis shows that greater sensitivity of TR-FDF mismatch to probe motion reduces the effective closed-loop contraction margin, whereas motion-independent errors primarily enlarge the residual error bound. Guided by this analysis, we develop a TR-FDF-oriented ultrasound simulator that combines a shared structural intermediate domain, trajectory-level fixed noise, and few-step conditional flow generation. In phantom experiments, a policy trained exclusively in simulation succeeded in 390 of 400 zero-shot deployments across four target planes. The simulator achieved an FID of 29.66 and generated observations at 67.1 Hz. Controlled interventions, ablations, and baseline comparisons showed that TR-FDF sensitivity complements single-frame realism in predicting zero-shot transfer performance.