ロボットによる電池リサイクルにおける二端子危険に対する実行時安全フィルタリング
Runtime Safety Filtering for Two-Terminal Hazards in Robotic Battery Recycling
電池リサイクルで導電性ペイロードが充電セルの両端子に同時に近づく危険を対象に、学習済み操作ポリシーへの実行時安全フィルタの設計(述語構造・マージン・フォールバック)を比較し、フォールバック戦略が安全性とタスク成功率のトレードオフに最も大きく影響することを示した。
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著者: Yuxin Cao, Wei Song, Xianglin Yang, Fusen Guo, Lin Li, Xiao Cheng, Jin Song Dong
分類: cs.RO
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Runtime safety filters for learned manipulation policies typically define unsafe states as unions of object-wise keep-out regions. This representation can be unnecessarily restrictive for hazards that depend on a joint spatial relation, such as battery recycling, where a conductive payload can short a charged cell only when it approaches both terminals simultaneously. We study runtime filtering for this two-terminal hazard in LIBERO using frozen OpenVLA policies. We factor a runtime filter into three design choices: the predicate structure, its geometric margin, and the fallback action applied when a commanded action is rejected. We compare a conjunctive predicate, a conventional two-site keep-out, and a composite of the two. For each predicate, we vary its margin to obtain a frontier between task success and residual hazard. We then compare four fallback strategies at matched operating points: holding, retreat, sampled search, and a continuous-action barrier projection. Across three workcells, the three predicate families trace nearly identical safety--utility frontiers once each is evaluated over its own margin. In contrast, the fallback strategy has a substantially larger effect: holding reduces task success by up to 0.302 relative to retreat without reducing hazard, while both minimally invasive fallbacks leave substantially more residual hazard. This ordering transfers to a second policy and task suite, while retreat-based filtering remains effective under standing errors in the clearances available to the filter, although correlated error in the estimated payload size is more damaging than larger independent errors in terminal position. These results show that, for proximity-defined manipulation hazards, margin selection and fallback strategy can matter more than predicate structure in determining the safety--utility trade-off of a runtime filter.