Physics-Conditioned Grasping for Stable Tool Use

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Main Authors: Trupin, Noah, Wang, Zixing, Qureshi, Ahmed H.
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Published: 2025
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author Trupin, Noah
Wang, Zixing
Qureshi, Ahmed H.
author_facet Trupin, Noah
Wang, Zixing
Qureshi, Ahmed H.
contents Tool use often fails not because robots misidentify tools, but because grasps cannot withstand task-induced wrench. Existing vision-language manipulation systems ground tools and contact regions from language yet select grasps under quasi-static or geometry-only assumptions. During interaction, inertial impulse and lever-arm amplification generate wrist torque and tangential loads that trigger slip and rotation. We introduce inverse Tool-use Planning (iTuP), which selects grasps by minimizing predicted interaction wrench along a task-conditioned trajectory. From rigid-body mechanics, we derive torque, slip, and alignment penalties, and train a Stable Dynamic Grasp Network (SDG-Net) to approximate these trajectory-conditioned costs for real-time scoring. Across hammering, sweeping, knocking, and reaching in simulation and on hardware, SDG-Net suppresses induced torque up to 17.6%, shifts grasps below empirically observed instability thresholds, and improves real-world success by 17.5% over a compositional baseline. Improvements concentrate where wrench amplification dominates, showing that robot tool use requires wrench-aware grasp selection, not perception alone.
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spellingShingle Physics-Conditioned Grasping for Stable Tool Use
Trupin, Noah
Wang, Zixing
Qureshi, Ahmed H.
Robotics
Tool use often fails not because robots misidentify tools, but because grasps cannot withstand task-induced wrench. Existing vision-language manipulation systems ground tools and contact regions from language yet select grasps under quasi-static or geometry-only assumptions. During interaction, inertial impulse and lever-arm amplification generate wrist torque and tangential loads that trigger slip and rotation. We introduce inverse Tool-use Planning (iTuP), which selects grasps by minimizing predicted interaction wrench along a task-conditioned trajectory. From rigid-body mechanics, we derive torque, slip, and alignment penalties, and train a Stable Dynamic Grasp Network (SDG-Net) to approximate these trajectory-conditioned costs for real-time scoring. Across hammering, sweeping, knocking, and reaching in simulation and on hardware, SDG-Net suppresses induced torque up to 17.6%, shifts grasps below empirically observed instability thresholds, and improves real-world success by 17.5% over a compositional baseline. Improvements concentrate where wrench amplification dominates, showing that robot tool use requires wrench-aware grasp selection, not perception alone.
title Physics-Conditioned Grasping for Stable Tool Use
topic Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.01399