Robotic Perception with a Large Tactile-Vision-Language Model for Physical Property Inference

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Autores principales: Guo, Zexiang, Chen, Hengxiang, Mai, Xinheng, Qiu, Qiusang, Ma, Gan, Kappassov, Zhanat, Li, Qiang, Chen, Nutan
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Publicado: 2025
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author Guo, Zexiang
Chen, Hengxiang
Mai, Xinheng
Qiu, Qiusang
Ma, Gan
Kappassov, Zhanat
Li, Qiang
Chen, Nutan
author_facet Guo, Zexiang
Chen, Hengxiang
Mai, Xinheng
Qiu, Qiusang
Ma, Gan
Kappassov, Zhanat
Li, Qiang
Chen, Nutan
contents Inferring physical properties can significantly enhance robotic manipulation by enabling robots to handle objects safely and efficiently through adaptive grasping strategies. Previous approaches have typically relied on either tactile or visual data, limiting their ability to fully capture properties. We introduce a novel cross-modal perception framework that integrates visual observations with tactile representations within a multimodal vision-language model. Our physical reasoning framework, which employs a hierarchical feature alignment mechanism and a refined prompting strategy, enables our model to make property-specific predictions that strongly correlate with ground-truth measurements. Evaluated on 35 diverse objects, our approach outperforms existing baselines and demonstrates strong zero-shot generalization. Keywords: tactile perception, visual-tactile fusion, physical property inference, multimodal integration, robot perception
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spellingShingle Robotic Perception with a Large Tactile-Vision-Language Model for Physical Property Inference
Guo, Zexiang
Chen, Hengxiang
Mai, Xinheng
Qiu, Qiusang
Ma, Gan
Kappassov, Zhanat
Li, Qiang
Chen, Nutan
Robotics
Inferring physical properties can significantly enhance robotic manipulation by enabling robots to handle objects safely and efficiently through adaptive grasping strategies. Previous approaches have typically relied on either tactile or visual data, limiting their ability to fully capture properties. We introduce a novel cross-modal perception framework that integrates visual observations with tactile representations within a multimodal vision-language model. Our physical reasoning framework, which employs a hierarchical feature alignment mechanism and a refined prompting strategy, enables our model to make property-specific predictions that strongly correlate with ground-truth measurements. Evaluated on 35 diverse objects, our approach outperforms existing baselines and demonstrates strong zero-shot generalization. Keywords: tactile perception, visual-tactile fusion, physical property inference, multimodal integration, robot perception
title Robotic Perception with a Large Tactile-Vision-Language Model for Physical Property Inference
topic Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19303