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Autori principali: Briscoe-Martinez, Gilberto G., Gautam, Yaashia, Shetty, Rahul, Pasricha, Anuj, Nicotra, Marco M., Roncone, Alessandro
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Pubblicazione: 2026
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Accesso online:https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.02895
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author Briscoe-Martinez, Gilberto G.
Gautam, Yaashia
Shetty, Rahul
Pasricha, Anuj
Nicotra, Marco M.
Roncone, Alessandro
author_facet Briscoe-Martinez, Gilberto G.
Gautam, Yaashia
Shetty, Rahul
Pasricha, Anuj
Nicotra, Marco M.
Roncone, Alessandro
contents Robot failure is detrimental and disruptive, often requiring human intervention to recover. Our vision is 'fail-active' operation, allowing robots to safely complete their tasks even when damaged. Focusing on 'actuation failures', we introduce DEFT, a diffusion-based trajectory generator conditioned on the robot's current embodiment and task constraints. DEFT generalizes across failure types, supports constrained and unconstrained motions, and enables task completion under arbitrary failure. We evaluate DEFT in both simulation and real-world scenarios using a 7-DoF robotic arm. DEFT outperforms its baselines over thousands of failure conditions, achieving a 99.5% success rate for unconstrained motions versus RRT's 42.4%, and 46.4% for constrained motions versus differential IK's 30.9%. Furthermore, DEFT demonstrates robust zero-shot generalization by maintaining performance on failure conditions unseen during training. Finally, we perform real-world evaluations on two multi-step tasks, drawer manipulation and whiteboard erasing. These experiments demonstrate DEFT succeeding on tasks where classical methods fail. Our results show that DEFT achieves fail-active manipulation across arbitrary failure configurations and real-world deployments.
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spellingShingle Moving On, Even When You're Broken: Fail-Active Trajectory Generation via Diffusion Policies Conditioned on Embodiment and Task
Briscoe-Martinez, Gilberto G.
Gautam, Yaashia
Shetty, Rahul
Pasricha, Anuj
Nicotra, Marco M.
Roncone, Alessandro
Robotics
Artificial Intelligence
Robot failure is detrimental and disruptive, often requiring human intervention to recover. Our vision is 'fail-active' operation, allowing robots to safely complete their tasks even when damaged. Focusing on 'actuation failures', we introduce DEFT, a diffusion-based trajectory generator conditioned on the robot's current embodiment and task constraints. DEFT generalizes across failure types, supports constrained and unconstrained motions, and enables task completion under arbitrary failure. We evaluate DEFT in both simulation and real-world scenarios using a 7-DoF robotic arm. DEFT outperforms its baselines over thousands of failure conditions, achieving a 99.5% success rate for unconstrained motions versus RRT's 42.4%, and 46.4% for constrained motions versus differential IK's 30.9%. Furthermore, DEFT demonstrates robust zero-shot generalization by maintaining performance on failure conditions unseen during training. Finally, we perform real-world evaluations on two multi-step tasks, drawer manipulation and whiteboard erasing. These experiments demonstrate DEFT succeeding on tasks where classical methods fail. Our results show that DEFT achieves fail-active manipulation across arbitrary failure configurations and real-world deployments.
title Moving On, Even When You're Broken: Fail-Active Trajectory Generation via Diffusion Policies Conditioned on Embodiment and Task
topic Robotics
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.02895