arXiv:2512.13009cs.RO2025-12

用核方法建模关节残差扭矩,提升协作机器人无传感器力估计算法精度。

K-VARK: Kernelized Variance-Aware Residual Kalman Filter for Sensorless Force Estimation in Collaborative Robots

  • 基于核化运动基元学习残差扭矩的均值与方差,捕捉数据变化特性。
  • 在6自由度机械臂上实现力估计误差降低超20%。
  • 适合需要高精度力反馈的打磨、装配等复杂任务。

可靠的接触力估计算法对确保机器人在非结构化环境中安全精确交互至关重要。然而,由于固有的建模误差和复杂的残差动力学及摩擦,实现高精度的无传感器力估计仍具挑战。本文提出K-VARK(核化方差感知残差卡尔曼滤波器),将基于核函数的残差扭矩概率模型融入自适应卡尔曼滤波框架。通过在优化激励轨迹上训练的核化运动基元,K-VARK同时捕获残差扭矩的预测均值与输入依赖的异方差性,反映数据变异性与距训练样本距离的影响。这些统计信息用于构建方差感知的虚拟测量更新,通过增强测量噪声协方差实现;同时,过程噪声协方差通过变分贝叶斯优化在线自适应调整以应对动态扰动。在六自由度协作机械臂上的实验验证表明,相比现有最优无传感器力估计方法,K-VARK实现了超过20%的均方根误差(RMSE)降低,可实现鲁棒且高精度的外部力/力矩估计,适用于抛光、装配等高级任务。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Reliable estimation of contact forces is crucial for ensuring safe and precise interaction of robots with unstructured environments. However, accurate sensorless force estimation remains challenging due to inherent modeling errors and complex residual dynamics and friction. To address this challenge, in this paper, we propose K-VARK (Kernelized Variance-Aware Residual Kalman filter), a novel approach that integrates a kernelized, probabilistic model of joint residual torques into an adaptive Kalman filter framework. Through Kernelized Movement Primitives trained on optimized excitation trajectories, K-VARK captures both the predictive mean and input-dependent heteroscedastic variance of residual torques, reflecting data variability and distance-to-training effects. These statistics inform a variance-aware virtual measurement update by augmenting the measurement noise covariance, while the process noise covariance adapts online via variational Bayesian optimization to handle dynamic disturbances. Experimental validation on a 6-DoF collaborative manipulator demonstrates that K-VARK achieves over 20% reduction in RMSE compared to state-of-the-art sensorless force estimation methods, yielding robust and accurate external force/torque estimation suitable for advanced tasks such as polishing and assembly.

力估计卡尔曼滤波协作机器人无传感器

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