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Autores principales: Van der Merwe, Mark, Oller, Miquel, Berenson, Dmitry, Fazeli, Nima
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Publicado: 2025
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Acceso en línea:https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.10884
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author Van der Merwe, Mark
Oller, Miquel
Berenson, Dmitry
Fazeli, Nima
author_facet Van der Merwe, Mark
Oller, Miquel
Berenson, Dmitry
Fazeli, Nima
contents Dexterous manipulation requires careful reasoning over extrinsic contacts. The prevalence of deforming tools in human environments, the use of deformable sensors, and the increasing number of soft robots yields a need for approaches that enable dexterous manipulation through contact reasoning where not all contacts are well characterized by classical rigid body contact models. Here, we consider the case of a deforming tool dexterously manipulating a rigid object. We propose a hybrid learning and first-principles approach to the modeling of simultaneous motion and force transfer of tools and objects. The learned module is responsible for jointly estimating the rigid object's motion and the deformable tool's imparted contact forces. We then propose a Contact Quadratic Program to recover forces between the environment and object subject to quasi-static equilibrium and Coulomb friction. The results is a system capable of modeling both intrinsic and extrinsic motions, contacts, and forces during dexterous deformable manipulation. We train our method in simulation and show that our method outperforms baselines under varying block geometries and physical properties, during pushing and pivoting manipulations, and demonstrate transfer to real world interactions. Video results can be found at https://deform-rigid-contact.github.io/.
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spellingShingle Estimating Deformable-Rigid Contact Interactions for a Deformable Tool via Learning and Model-Based Optimization
Van der Merwe, Mark
Oller, Miquel
Berenson, Dmitry
Fazeli, Nima
Robotics
Dexterous manipulation requires careful reasoning over extrinsic contacts. The prevalence of deforming tools in human environments, the use of deformable sensors, and the increasing number of soft robots yields a need for approaches that enable dexterous manipulation through contact reasoning where not all contacts are well characterized by classical rigid body contact models. Here, we consider the case of a deforming tool dexterously manipulating a rigid object. We propose a hybrid learning and first-principles approach to the modeling of simultaneous motion and force transfer of tools and objects. The learned module is responsible for jointly estimating the rigid object's motion and the deformable tool's imparted contact forces. We then propose a Contact Quadratic Program to recover forces between the environment and object subject to quasi-static equilibrium and Coulomb friction. The results is a system capable of modeling both intrinsic and extrinsic motions, contacts, and forces during dexterous deformable manipulation. We train our method in simulation and show that our method outperforms baselines under varying block geometries and physical properties, during pushing and pivoting manipulations, and demonstrate transfer to real world interactions. Video results can be found at https://deform-rigid-contact.github.io/.
title Estimating Deformable-Rigid Contact Interactions for a Deformable Tool via Learning and Model-Based Optimization
topic Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.10884