用电机电流感知接触力,实现无需传感器的灵巧操作。
Current as Touch: Proprioceptive Contact Feedback for Compliant Dexterous Manipulation

- 从电机电流和关节状态学习接触反馈,替代外部传感器。
- 实测在多种任务中稳定抓握,提升操控安全与效率。
- 适合低成本机器人手、远程操作与强化学习应用。
柔顺性是灵巧操作的关键,但现有方案多依赖昂贵、易损的外部触觉或力传感器。本文提出一种基于本体感知的框架,从电机电流与关节状态中学习接触相关的柔顺信号。由于电机电流与执行器扭矩密切相关,可作为接触力、物体阻力和抓握稳定性内在信号,无需额外传感硬件。方法不直接估计外力或命令扭矩,而是预测一个柔顺参考位置:标准PD控制器的理想关节位置目标,其产生的位置误差可生成合适的抓握力。该位置形式兼容主流遥操作与策略学习流程,使机器人能根据实时本体反馈自适应交互力。实验在多个灵巧机械手上完成,涵盖脆弱物体处理、持续表面接触、细长物体抓取及动态负载适应等任务,均实现稳定柔顺抓握,提升远程操作安全性与效率,并改善下游策略学习效果,且全程无需外部触觉或力传感器。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Compliance is essential for dexterous manipulation, yet existing solutions often rely on external tactile or force sensors that are costly, fragile, and difficult to deploy on low-cost robot hands. We propose a proprioception-driven framework that learns contact-aware compliance cues from motor current and joint states. Since motor current is closely related to actuator torque, it provides an intrinsic signal for perceiving contact force, object resistance, and grasp stability without additional sensing hardware. Rather than estimating external wrenches or commanding torque, our method predicts a compliance reference position: an ideal joint-position target for a standard PD controller whose induced position error generates appropriate grasping force. This position-based formulation is compatible with mainstream teleoperation and policy-learning pipelines, while enabling the robot to adapt interaction forces from real-time proprioceptive feedback. Thus, motor current serves not only as a force proxy but also as a learnable proprioceptive contact signal for compliance reference prediction. Experiments on multiple dexterous hands and contact-rich tasks, including fragile object handling, sustained surface contact, thin-object retrieval, and dynamic load adaptation, show stable compliant grasping, safer and more efficient teleoperation, and improved downstream policy learning without external tactile or force sensors.
Thank you to arXiv for use of its open access interoperability. PaperDance 不是 arXiv 官方产品;中文卡片由大模型生成,请以原文为准。