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Autori principali: Shirasaka, Mimo, Beltran-Hernandez, Cristian C., Hamaya, Masashi, Ushiku, Yoshitaka
Natura: Preprint
Pubblicazione: 2025
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Accesso online:https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17666
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author Shirasaka, Mimo
Beltran-Hernandez, Cristian C.
Hamaya, Masashi
Ushiku, Yoshitaka
author_facet Shirasaka, Mimo
Beltran-Hernandez, Cristian C.
Hamaya, Masashi
Ushiku, Yoshitaka
contents Object insertion tasks are prone to failure under pose uncertainty and environmental variation, often requiring manual fine-tuning or controller retraining. We present a novel approach for robust and resilient object insertion using a passively compliant soft wrist that enables safe contact absorption through large deformations, without high-frequency control or force sensing. Our method structures insertion as compliance-enabled contact formations, sequential contact states that progressively constrain degrees of freedom, and integrates automated failure recovery strategies. Our key insight is that wrist compliance permits safe, repeated recovery attempts; hence, we refer to it as compliance-enabled failure recovery. We employ a pre-trained vision-language model (VLM) that assesses each skill execution from terminal poses and images, identifies failure modes, and proposes recovery actions by selecting skills and updating goals. In simulation, our method achieved an 83% success rate, recovering from failures induced by randomized conditions, including grasp misalignments up to 5 degrees, hole-pose errors up to 20 mm, fivefold increases in friction, and unseen square/rectangular pegs, and we further validated the approach on a real robot. Project page is available at https://omron-sinicx.github.io/compliance-enabled-failure-recovery/.
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spellingShingle Robust and Resilient Soft Robotic Object Insertion with Compliance-Enabled Contact Formation and Failure Recovery
Shirasaka, Mimo
Beltran-Hernandez, Cristian C.
Hamaya, Masashi
Ushiku, Yoshitaka
Robotics
Object insertion tasks are prone to failure under pose uncertainty and environmental variation, often requiring manual fine-tuning or controller retraining. We present a novel approach for robust and resilient object insertion using a passively compliant soft wrist that enables safe contact absorption through large deformations, without high-frequency control or force sensing. Our method structures insertion as compliance-enabled contact formations, sequential contact states that progressively constrain degrees of freedom, and integrates automated failure recovery strategies. Our key insight is that wrist compliance permits safe, repeated recovery attempts; hence, we refer to it as compliance-enabled failure recovery. We employ a pre-trained vision-language model (VLM) that assesses each skill execution from terminal poses and images, identifies failure modes, and proposes recovery actions by selecting skills and updating goals. In simulation, our method achieved an 83% success rate, recovering from failures induced by randomized conditions, including grasp misalignments up to 5 degrees, hole-pose errors up to 20 mm, fivefold increases in friction, and unseen square/rectangular pegs, and we further validated the approach on a real robot. Project page is available at https://omron-sinicx.github.io/compliance-enabled-failure-recovery/.
title Robust and Resilient Soft Robotic Object Insertion with Compliance-Enabled Contact Formation and Failure Recovery
topic Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17666