用流动性能优化机器人称粉,让机械化学家更精准。
FLIP: Flowability-Informed Powder Weighing
- 用休止角量化粉末流动性,指导物理仿真生成真实训练数据。
- 课程学习策略逐步引入难处理粉末,误差低至2.12±1.53毫克。
- 适合需要高精度粉末操作的自动化实验室,尤其擅长新物料泛化。
自主操控粉末仍是科学实验室机器人自动化中的重大挑战。粉末在流动中的固有变异性和复杂的物理相互作用,以及实验室条件的差异,要求自动化系统具备自适应能力。本文提出FLIP框架,通过角度的休止角量化材料流动性,利用贝叶斯推断优化基于物理的仿真,生成反映多样粉末行为的材料特异性仿真环境,用于训练‘机器人化学家’。在此基础上,将量化流动性融入课程学习策略,逐步引入更难处理、流动性更差的粉末,实现高效稳健的机器人策略获取。在真实实验室环境下验证了该方法在粉末称重任务中的有效性。实验结果表明,采用课程学习的FLIP系统平均称量误差为2.12 ± 1.53毫克,显著优于未使用流动性数据的方法(如领域随机化,误差6.11 ± 3.92毫克),展现出对未见高黏性粉末和新目标质量的更强泛化能力。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Autonomous manipulation of powders remains a significant challenge for robotic automation in scientific laboratories. The inherent variability and complex physical interactions of powders in flow, coupled with variability in laboratory conditions necessitates adaptive automation. This work introduces FLIP, a flowability-informed powder weighing framework designed to enhance robotic policy learning for granular material handling. Our key contribution lies in using material flowability, quantified by the angle of repose, to optimise physics-based simulations through Bayesian inference. This yields material-specific simulation environments capable of generating accurate training data, which reflects diverse powder behaviours, for training "robot chemists". Building on this, FLIP integrates quantified flowability into a curriculum learning strategy, fostering efficient acquisition of robust robotic policies by gradually introducing more challenging, less flowable powders. We validate the efficacy of our method on a robotic powder weighing task under real-world laboratory conditions. Experimental results show that FLIP with a curriculum strategy achieves a low dispensing error of 2.12 +/- 1.53 mg, outperforming methods that do not leverage flowability data, such as domain randomisation (6.11 +/- 3.92 mg). These results demonstrate FLIP's improved ability to generalise to previously unseen, more cohesive powders and to new target masses.
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