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Main Authors: Wang, Wentian, Wen, Chutong, Ma, Hongxu, Wang, Wuhao, Xue, Zhexiong, Nizamani, Abdul Haseeb, Zhou, Dandi, Sun, Xinhai, Zhu, Jianqiao
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Published: 2026
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.22082
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author Wang, Wentian
Wen, Chutong
Ma, Hongxu
Wang, Wuhao
Xue, Zhexiong
Nizamani, Abdul Haseeb
Zhou, Dandi
Sun, Xinhai
Zhu, Jianqiao
author_facet Wang, Wentian
Wen, Chutong
Ma, Hongxu
Wang, Wuhao
Xue, Zhexiong
Nizamani, Abdul Haseeb
Zhou, Dandi
Sun, Xinhai
Zhu, Jianqiao
contents We present CoRMA(Contrastive Robotic Motor Adaptation), a context-based meta-adaptation framework that modifies RMA for force-dominant assembly. CoRMA replaces raw simulator-parameter adaptation with a compact 6D simulator-only semantic contact context describing contact onset, lateral engagement, guided transition, contact direction, and jamming. A deployable causal Transformer adapter infers this context online from force, proprioceptive, and action histories using semantic regression and a force-regime contrastive objective. At deployment, oracle context is removed and replaced by the inferred context, enabling within-episode adaptation without demonstrations, privileged inputs, or gradient updates. We evaluate CoRMA on PegInsert, GearMesh, and NutThread in Isaac Lab / Isaac Sim 5.0 and on a real Marvin arm. Compared with FORGE baselines that achieve high simulation success but degrade substantially on hardware, CoRMA retains higher verified real success under controlled target-pose noise. These results support semantic contact inference as a reusable adaptation interface within a related assembly task family, while broader unseen-task generalization and Real2Sim calibration remain future work.
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spellingShingle CoRMA: Contrastive RMA for Contact-Rich Meta-Adaptation
Wang, Wentian
Wen, Chutong
Ma, Hongxu
Wang, Wuhao
Xue, Zhexiong
Nizamani, Abdul Haseeb
Zhou, Dandi
Sun, Xinhai
Zhu, Jianqiao
Robotics
Machine Learning
We present CoRMA(Contrastive Robotic Motor Adaptation), a context-based meta-adaptation framework that modifies RMA for force-dominant assembly. CoRMA replaces raw simulator-parameter adaptation with a compact 6D simulator-only semantic contact context describing contact onset, lateral engagement, guided transition, contact direction, and jamming. A deployable causal Transformer adapter infers this context online from force, proprioceptive, and action histories using semantic regression and a force-regime contrastive objective. At deployment, oracle context is removed and replaced by the inferred context, enabling within-episode adaptation without demonstrations, privileged inputs, or gradient updates. We evaluate CoRMA on PegInsert, GearMesh, and NutThread in Isaac Lab / Isaac Sim 5.0 and on a real Marvin arm. Compared with FORGE baselines that achieve high simulation success but degrade substantially on hardware, CoRMA retains higher verified real success under controlled target-pose noise. These results support semantic contact inference as a reusable adaptation interface within a related assembly task family, while broader unseen-task generalization and Real2Sim calibration remain future work.
title CoRMA: Contrastive RMA for Contact-Rich Meta-Adaptation
topic Robotics
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.22082