无需传感器,用少量样本快速适应不同环境的柔性工具受力估计方法
Context-Aware Force Estimation for Deformable Tool Manipulation in Robotic Environmental Swabbing via Few-Shot Continual Adaptation

- 用轻量LSTM结合上下文嵌入,从机器人自身感知数据中推断真实接触力
- 在9种不同表面和工具条件下,零样本误差降低63%,且不遗忘旧知识
- 适合需要无菌一次性工具的医疗或洁净室机器人场景
机器人表面采样需持续保持柔性工具与多样环境的交互,准确估计末端接触力对采样一致性至关重要。但柔性工具的非线性粘弹性滞后效应导致腕部力传感器测量值与真实接触力解耦,而工具集成传感器因无菌和一次性要求难以部署。本文提出一种基于数据驱动的柔性工具操作(DTM)接触力估计框架,利用本体感知数据,无需物理模型或永久嵌入式传感器。通过对比时序模型,确定紧凑型LSTM在最低误差和亚毫秒推理延迟下表现最优。为提升跨未见表面和工具柔性的泛化能力,引入参数隔离的少样本持续适应策略,通过特征式线性调制(FiLM)向冻结的递归主干添加低维上下文嵌入。在UR5e平台上对九种工具-表面交互场景的实验表明,该方法显著增强域迁移下的鲁棒性,零样本估计误差最高降低63%,同时保持基线性能且无灾难性遗忘。结果表明,分离共享形变历史动态与领域特定条件,可实现非平稳环境中可靠接触力估计。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Robotic surface swabbing requires sustained interaction between a compliant tool and heterogeneous environments, where accurate estimation of tip-level contact force is critical for consistent sampling performance. However, deformable tool dynamics introduce nonlinear viscoelastic hysteresis that decouples wrist-mounted force measurements from true contact forces, while tool-integrated sensors are impractical for deployment due to sterility and disposability constraints. This paper presents a data-driven framework for contact force estimation in Deformable Tool Manipulation (DTM) that leverages proprioceptive sensing without requiring explicit physical models or permanent embedded sensing hardware at the tool tip. A recurrent architecture is first identified through a comparative evaluation of temporal models, where a compact LSTM achieves the lowest estimation error and sub-millisecond inference latency. To address generalization across unseen surfaces and tool compliance conditions, we introduce a parameter-isolated few-shot adaptation strategy that augments a frozen recurrent backbone with low-dimensional context embeddings using feature-wise linear modulation (FiLM). Experiments on a UR5e platform across nine tool-surface interaction regimes demonstrate that the proposed approach significantly improves robustness under domain shift, reducing zero-shot estimation error by up to 63\% while preserving baseline performance without catastrophic forgetting. These results show that separating shared deformation-history dynamics from domain-specific conditioning enables reliable force estimation for DTM in non-stationary environments.
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