接触の多い模倣学習に効く触覚手がかりはどれか:実機ロボットによる統制実験
Which Physical Tactile Cues Matter for Contact-Rich Imitation Learning? A Controlled Real-Robot Study
視覚触覚センサから得られる接触外観・形状・接線変形の各手がかりを実機ロボットで比較し、マーカーフローが最も有効で、手がかりごとに適した処理が必要だと示した研究。
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著者: Xuhao Qin, Xiyan Huang, Haoyu Dong, Xi Zhang, Chenxi Xiao
分類: cs.RO
原文アブストラクト
Vision-based tactile sensors capture multiple aspects of physical interaction within a single image stream, including contact appearance, geometry, indentation depth, and tangential deformation. However, existing visuo-tactile policies often directly process tactile observations as images, making it difficult to determine which physical cues contribute to policy learning. This paper presents a controlled real-robot study that compares physically interpretable tactile signals using the LeRobot platform, enhanced with our visuo-tactile perception system. From the same tactile stream, we derive tactile RGB images, normal/depth maps, and marker-flow fields, representing contact appearance, geometry, and tangential deformation, respectively. Using identical task demonstrations and the same policy backbone, we evaluate the individual and combined contributions of these tactile cues. We further compare tactile encoders and visuo-tactile fusion strategies. Evaluation across 720 real-robot trials yields four key findings: (1) tactile perception substantially improves the overall success rate from 57.8% to 78.9%, although its contribution varies across task stages; (2) marker flow is the most effective individual cue, achieving a success rate of 74.4% and playing a particularly important role in regulating established contact; (3) cue-factorized encoding consistently improves performance, highlighting that different physical cues require tailored processing techniques; and (4) although the effectiveness of tactile fusion is task-dependent, cross-attention offers a lightweight solution with performance comparable to that of pretrained tactile encoders.