FILIC: Dual-Loop Force-Guided Imitation Learning with Impedance Torque Control for Contact-Rich Manipulation Tasks

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Hauptverfasser: Ge, Haizhou, Jia, Yufei, Li, Zheng, Li, Yue, Chen, Zhixing, Huang, Ruqi, Zhou, Guyue
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author Ge, Haizhou
Jia, Yufei
Li, Zheng
Li, Yue
Chen, Zhixing
Huang, Ruqi
Zhou, Guyue
author_facet Ge, Haizhou
Jia, Yufei
Li, Zheng
Li, Yue
Chen, Zhixing
Huang, Ruqi
Zhou, Guyue
contents Contact-rich manipulation is crucial for robots to perform tasks requiring precise force control, such as insertion, assembly, and in-hand manipulation. However, most imitation learning (IL) policies remain position-centric and lack explicit force awareness, and adding force/torque sensors to collaborative robot arms is often costly and requires additional hardware design. To overcome these issues, we propose FILIC, a Force-guided Imitation Learning framework with impedance torque control. FILIC integrates a Transformer-based IL policy with an impedance controller in a dual-loop structure, enabling compliant force-informed, force-executed manipulation. For robots without force/torque sensors, we introduce a cost-effective end-effector force estimator using joint torque measurements through analytical Jacobian-based inversion while compensating with model-predicted torques from a digital twin. We also design complementary force feedback frameworks via handheld haptics and VR visualization to improve demonstration quality. Experiments show that FILIC significantly outperforms vision-only and joint-torque-based methods, achieving safer, more compliant, and adaptable contact-rich manipulation. Our code can be found in https://github.com/TATP-233/FILIC.
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spellingShingle FILIC: Dual-Loop Force-Guided Imitation Learning with Impedance Torque Control for Contact-Rich Manipulation Tasks
Ge, Haizhou
Jia, Yufei
Li, Zheng
Li, Yue
Chen, Zhixing
Huang, Ruqi
Zhou, Guyue
Robotics
68T40, 93C85
I.2.9
Contact-rich manipulation is crucial for robots to perform tasks requiring precise force control, such as insertion, assembly, and in-hand manipulation. However, most imitation learning (IL) policies remain position-centric and lack explicit force awareness, and adding force/torque sensors to collaborative robot arms is often costly and requires additional hardware design. To overcome these issues, we propose FILIC, a Force-guided Imitation Learning framework with impedance torque control. FILIC integrates a Transformer-based IL policy with an impedance controller in a dual-loop structure, enabling compliant force-informed, force-executed manipulation. For robots without force/torque sensors, we introduce a cost-effective end-effector force estimator using joint torque measurements through analytical Jacobian-based inversion while compensating with model-predicted torques from a digital twin. We also design complementary force feedback frameworks via handheld haptics and VR visualization to improve demonstration quality. Experiments show that FILIC significantly outperforms vision-only and joint-torque-based methods, achieving safer, more compliant, and adaptable contact-rich manipulation. Our code can be found in https://github.com/TATP-233/FILIC.
title FILIC: Dual-Loop Force-Guided Imitation Learning with Impedance Torque Control for Contact-Rich Manipulation Tasks
topic Robotics
68T40, 93C85
I.2.9
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17053