TACTIC: 接触の多いロボットマニピュレーション政策のための触覚エンコーダと条件付けの理解
TACTIC: Understanding Tactile Encoders and Conditioning for Contact-rich Robot Manipulation Policies
視覚ベース触覚センサを用いた接触の多いマニピュレーションタスクにおいて、様々な触覚エンコーダと融合戦略を実世界で2000回以上評価し、最適な設計はタスクに強く依存することを示した研究。
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著者: Seongjin Bien, Débora Oliveira Makowski, Carlo Kneissl, Reihaneh Mirjalili, Pankhuri Vanjani, Rudolf Lioutikov, Gitta Kutyniok, Florian Walter, Wolfram Burgard
分類: cs.RO
原文アブストラクト
Tactile information is essential for contact-rich manipulation tasks in robotics. Vision-based tactile sensors make it particularly easy to design end-to-end manipulation policies with tactile sensing, as they enable the use of existing encoders from computer vision. However, this has led to a huge variety of architectures, training datasets, and evaluation protocols, making it difficult to determine which design choices best encode touch. In this work, we address this gap and present a comprehensive study of tactile encoders and fusion strategies across various contact-rich manipulation tasks in real-world experiments. To enable a controlled comparison, we train and evaluate all models under the same pipeline and experimental setup, comprising more than 2000 real-world rollouts. Our results go beyond other studies that only compare simulation performance, which does not necessarily translate to real-world settings, where large-scale evaluations are needed to obtain reliable statistics. Our key finding is that there is no universally optimal representation or fusion strategy for encoding visual-tactile. Instead, the best encoder backbone and fusion scheme depend strongly on the task.