Vision-based Tactile Image Generation via Contact Condition-guided Diffusion Model

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Main Authors: Lin, Xi, Xu, Weiliang, Mao, Yixian, Wang, Jing, Lv, Meixuan, Liu, Lu, Luo, Xihui, Li, Xinming
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author Lin, Xi
Xu, Weiliang
Mao, Yixian
Wang, Jing
Lv, Meixuan
Liu, Lu
Luo, Xihui
Li, Xinming
author_facet Lin, Xi
Xu, Weiliang
Mao, Yixian
Wang, Jing
Lv, Meixuan
Liu, Lu
Luo, Xihui
Li, Xinming
contents Vision-based tactile sensors, through high-resolution optical measurements, can effectively perceive the geometric shape of objects and the force information during the contact process, thus helping robots acquire higher-dimensional tactile data. Vision-based tactile sensor simulation supports the acquisition and understanding of tactile information without physical sensors by accurately capturing and analyzing contact behavior and physical properties. However, the complexity of contact dynamics and lighting modeling limits the accurate reproduction of real sensor responses in simulations, making it difficult to meet the needs of different sensor setups and affecting the reliability and effectiveness of strategy transfer to practical applications. In this letter, we propose a contact-condition guided diffusion model that maps RGB images of objects and contact force data to high-fidelity, detail-rich vision-based tactile sensor images. Evaluations show that the three-channel tactile images generated by this method achieve a 60.58% reduction in mean squared error and a 38.1% reduction in marker displacement error compared to existing approaches based on lighting model and mechanical model, validating the effectiveness of our approach. The method is successfully applied to various types of tactile vision sensors and can effectively generate corresponding tactile images under complex loads. Additionally, it demonstrates outstanding reconstruction of fine texture features of objects in a Montessori tactile board texture generation task.
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spellingShingle Vision-based Tactile Image Generation via Contact Condition-guided Diffusion Model
Lin, Xi
Xu, Weiliang
Mao, Yixian
Wang, Jing
Lv, Meixuan
Liu, Lu
Luo, Xihui
Li, Xinming
Robotics
Vision-based tactile sensors, through high-resolution optical measurements, can effectively perceive the geometric shape of objects and the force information during the contact process, thus helping robots acquire higher-dimensional tactile data. Vision-based tactile sensor simulation supports the acquisition and understanding of tactile information without physical sensors by accurately capturing and analyzing contact behavior and physical properties. However, the complexity of contact dynamics and lighting modeling limits the accurate reproduction of real sensor responses in simulations, making it difficult to meet the needs of different sensor setups and affecting the reliability and effectiveness of strategy transfer to practical applications. In this letter, we propose a contact-condition guided diffusion model that maps RGB images of objects and contact force data to high-fidelity, detail-rich vision-based tactile sensor images. Evaluations show that the three-channel tactile images generated by this method achieve a 60.58% reduction in mean squared error and a 38.1% reduction in marker displacement error compared to existing approaches based on lighting model and mechanical model, validating the effectiveness of our approach. The method is successfully applied to various types of tactile vision sensors and can effectively generate corresponding tactile images under complex loads. Additionally, it demonstrates outstanding reconstruction of fine texture features of objects in a Montessori tactile board texture generation task.
title Vision-based Tactile Image Generation via Contact Condition-guided Diffusion Model
topic Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.01639