融合触觉与视觉信息,让机器人从少量示范中学会精准点火。
On the Importance of Tactile Sensing for Imitation Learning: A Case Study on Robotic Match Lighting
- 用模块化Transformer和流模型融合视觉与触觉数据
- 在点火任务中触觉信息使成功率提升,证明其关键作用
- 适合做高精度接触类操作的机器人学习研究者
近年来,机器人操作领域进展显著。在传感层面,新型触觉传感器已能提供精确的接触信息;在方法层面,示范学习已被证明是获取高效操作策略的有效范式。两者的结合有望从示范数据中提取关键接触信息,并在策略执行时主动利用。然而,这种整合在动态、接触密集的任务中仍研究不足,而这类任务对精度与反应速度要求极高。本文提出一种多模态视觉-触觉模仿学习框架,结合模块化Transformer架构与基于流的生成模型,实现快速、灵巧操作策略的高效学习。我们在动态且接触丰富的机器人点火任务上评估该框架——该任务中触觉反馈影响人类操作表现。实验结果表明,加入触觉信息显著提升策略性能,验证了其在少量示范下学习动态操作的巨大潜力。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
The field of robotic manipulation has advanced significantly in recent years. At the sensing level, several novel tactile sensors have been developed, capable of providing accurate contact information. On a methodological level, learning from demonstrations has proven an efficient paradigm to obtain performant robotic manipulation policies. The combination of both holds the promise to extract crucial contact-related information from the demonstration data and actively exploit it during policy rollouts. However, this integration has so far been underexplored, most notably in dynamic, contact-rich manipulation tasks where precision and reactivity are essential. This work therefore proposes a multimodal, visuotactile imitation learning framework that integrates a modular transformer architecture with a flow-based generative model, enabling efficient learning of fast and dexterous manipulation policies. We evaluate our framework on the dynamic, contact-rich task of robotic match lighting - a task in which tactile feedback influences human manipulation performance. The experimental results highlight the effectiveness of our approach and show that adding tactile information improves policy performance, thereby underlining their combined potential for learning dynamic manipulation from few demonstrations. Project website: https://sites.google.com/view/tactile-il .
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