用新方法让机器人在接触多的任务中更稳更准。
Distributionally Robust Control via Stein Variational Inference for Contact-Rich Manipulation

- 用斯坦纳变分推断建模任务敏感的不确定性
- 实测在参数不确定下鲁棒性提升3倍
- 适合需要高可靠性的复杂抓取场景
可靠的机器人操作需要能够准确表示并适应接触丰富交互带来的不确定性。现代数据驱动方法依赖大规模训练和计算,在训练样本有限时性能显著下降;而经典模型基控制器虽计算高效且可靠,却难以充分表征与任务相关的不确定性,限制了其在接触丰富交互中的表现。本文提出通过更灵活的不确定性建模来增强模型基操作控制能力,在保持性能的同时精确适应不确定性。该方法将操作问题建模为分布鲁棒控制优化,并提出一种基于斯坦纳变分推断的新型确定性公式,既保留性能又显式建模任务敏感的参数不确定性。由此得到的控制器对任务敏感性更具感知力,提升了可靠性而不牺牲性能。实验表明,在多种接触丰富的操作任务中,面对广泛的参数不确定性,其鲁棒性相比现有模型基方法最高提升3倍。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Reliable robotic manipulation requires control policies that can accurately represent and adapt to uncertainty arising from contact-rich interactions. Modern data-driven methods mitigate uncertainty through large-scale training and computation, and degrade significantly in performance with limited number of training samples. By contrast, classical model-based controllers are computationally efficient and reliable, but their limited ability to represent task-relevant uncertainty can hinder performance in contact-rich interactions. In this work, we propose to expand the capabilities of model-based manipulation control through more flexible uncertainty modeling that retains performance while exactly adapting to uncertainty. Our approach casts the manipulation problem as a distributionally robust control optimization and proposes a novel deterministic formulation based on Stein variational inference that preserves performance while explicitly modeling task-sensitive parameter uncertainty. As a result, the derived controllers are more aware of task sensitivities to uncertainty, yielding high reliability without compromising performance. Experimental results demonstrate up to 3$\times$ improved robustness across a range of contact-rich manipulation tasks under broad parametric uncertainty, outperforming existing model-based control methods.
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