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Autores principales: Liu, Yibo, Oparnica, Stanko, Shewchun-Jakaitis, Simon, Fu, Guoyi, Wang, Jie, Yang, Jun, Jagannathan, Anand, Lo, Tony Hong-Yau
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Publicado: 2026
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Acceso en línea:https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.12247
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author Liu, Yibo
Oparnica, Stanko
Shewchun-Jakaitis, Simon
Fu, Guoyi
Wang, Jie
Yang, Jun
Jagannathan, Anand
Lo, Tony Hong-Yau
author_facet Liu, Yibo
Oparnica, Stanko
Shewchun-Jakaitis, Simon
Fu, Guoyi
Wang, Jie
Yang, Jun
Jagannathan, Anand
Lo, Tony Hong-Yau
contents Contact-rich assembly is fundamental in robotics but poses significant challenges due to uncertainties in relative poses, such as misalignments and small clearances in peg-in-hole tasks. Existing approaches typically address search and high-precision insertion separately, because these tasks involve distinct action patterns. However, supporting both tasks within a single model, without switching models or weights, is desirable for intelligent assembly systems. In this work, we propose SI-Diff, a framework that learns both search and high-precision insertion through a force-domain diffusion policy. To this end, we introduce a new mode-conditioning mechanism that enables the policy to capture distinct action behaviors under a single framework. Moreover, we develop a new search teacher policy that can generate diverse trajectories. By training on successful and efficient demonstrations provided by the teacher policy, the model learns the mapping from tactile and end-effector velocity observations to effective action behaviors. We conduct thorough experiments to show that SI-Diff extends the tolerance to x-y misalignments from 2 mm to 5 mm compared to the state-of-the-art baseline, TacDiffusion, while also demonstrating strong zero-shot transferability to unseen shapes.
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spellingShingle SI-Diff: A Framework for Learning Search and High-Precision Insertion with a Force-Domain Diffusion Policy
Liu, Yibo
Oparnica, Stanko
Shewchun-Jakaitis, Simon
Fu, Guoyi
Wang, Jie
Yang, Jun
Jagannathan, Anand
Lo, Tony Hong-Yau
Robotics
Contact-rich assembly is fundamental in robotics but poses significant challenges due to uncertainties in relative poses, such as misalignments and small clearances in peg-in-hole tasks. Existing approaches typically address search and high-precision insertion separately, because these tasks involve distinct action patterns. However, supporting both tasks within a single model, without switching models or weights, is desirable for intelligent assembly systems. In this work, we propose SI-Diff, a framework that learns both search and high-precision insertion through a force-domain diffusion policy. To this end, we introduce a new mode-conditioning mechanism that enables the policy to capture distinct action behaviors under a single framework. Moreover, we develop a new search teacher policy that can generate diverse trajectories. By training on successful and efficient demonstrations provided by the teacher policy, the model learns the mapping from tactile and end-effector velocity observations to effective action behaviors. We conduct thorough experiments to show that SI-Diff extends the tolerance to x-y misalignments from 2 mm to 5 mm compared to the state-of-the-art baseline, TacDiffusion, while also demonstrating strong zero-shot transferability to unseen shapes.
title SI-Diff: A Framework for Learning Search and High-Precision Insertion with a Force-Domain Diffusion Policy
topic Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.12247