arXiv:2604.02108cs.ROcs.LG2026-04

让机器人通过视觉与触觉协同感知物体物理属性,提升抓取可靠性。

Cross-Modal Visuo-Tactile Object Perception

  • 构建时序因果潜空间模型,融合视觉与触觉信息动态推断物体属性。
  • 在真实机器人实验中,对非刚性物体的属性估计误差降低37%以上。
  • 模拟人类多感官错觉,适合研究具身智能与人机感知协同的场景。

估计物体物理属性对安全高效的自主机器人操作至关重要,尤其在接触频繁的任务中。视觉与触觉能互补提供关于物体几何、姿态、惯性、刚度及接触动力学(如粘滑行为)的信息,但这些属性难以直接观测,且常受非线性摩擦与非刚性变形耦合影响,导致估计复杂,需持续利用多模态感知信息。现有框架多聚焦于强力传感器融合或静态跨模态对齐,较少关注属性信念随时间演变的不确定性。受人类多感官感知与主动推理启发,我们提出交叉模态潜在滤波器(CMLF),学习物理属性的结构化因果潜状态空间。该模型支持视觉与触觉间双向先验传递,并通过贝叶斯推理过程随时间演化整合感官证据。真实机器人实验证明,相较于基线方法,CMLF在不确定性环境下显著提升了潜变量物理属性估计的效率与鲁棒性。此外,模型表现出类人感知耦合现象,如跨模态错觉和相似的跨感官关联学习轨迹。这些成果为通用、鲁棒且物理一致的机器人多模态感知集成迈出了关键一步。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Estimating physical properties is critical for safe and efficient autonomous robotic manipulation, particularly during contact-rich interactions. In such settings, vision and tactile sensing provide complementary information about object geometry, pose, inertia, stiffness, and contact dynamics, such as stick-slip behavior. However, these properties are only indirectly observable and cannot always be modeled precisely (e.g., deformation in non-rigid objects coupled with nonlinear contact friction), making the estimation problem inherently complex and requiring sustained exploitation of visuo-tactile sensory information during action. Existing visuo-tactile perception frameworks have primarily emphasized forceful sensor fusion or static cross-modal alignment, with limited consideration of how uncertainty and beliefs about object properties evolve over time. Inspired by human multi-sensory perception and active inference, we propose the Cross-Modal Latent Filter (CMLF) to learn a structured, causal latent state-space of physical object properties. CMLF supports bidirectional transfer of cross-modal priors between vision and touch and integrates sensory evidence through a Bayesian inference process that evolves over time. Real-world robotic experiments demonstrate that CMLF improves the efficiency and robustness of latent physical properties estimation under uncertainty compared to baseline approaches. Beyond performance gains, the model exhibits perceptual coupling phenomena analogous to those observed in humans, including susceptibility to cross-modal illusions and similar trajectories in learning cross-sensory associations. Together, these results constitutes a significant step toward generalizable, robust and physically consistent cross-modal integration for robotic multi-sensory perception.

多模态感知机器人因果建模

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