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reinforcement learning for contact rich manipulati

done top 25 · 25 papers

  1. 100 relevance
    Hybrid Contact Dynamics and Residual-RL Framework for Multi-Point Object Pushing
    Chen Chen, Xu Dai, Jozsef Kovecses
    The paper directly addresses reinforcement learning applied to contact-rich manipulation through a residual-RL framework for multi-point object pushing.
  2. 100 relevance
    Contact-Safe Reinforcement Learning with ProMP Reparameterization and Energy Awareness
    Bingkun Huang, Yuhe Gong, Zewen Yang, Tianyu REN, Luis Figueredo
    The paper explicitly focuses on reinforcement learning for contact-rich manipulation tasks, proposing a framework to ensure safety and robustness during physical interactions.
  3. 100 relevance
    Embracing Bulky Objects with Humanoid Robots: Whole-Body Manipulation with Reinforcement Learning
    Chunxin ZHENG, Kai Chen, Zhihai Bi, Yulin Li, Liang Pan, Jinni ZHOU, Haoang Li, Jun Ma
    The paper directly addresses reinforcement learning for whole-body manipulation involving multi-contact interactions with bulky objects, which is a core example of contact-rich manipulation.
  4. 100 relevance
    DexCtrl: Sim-To-Real Dexterity with Adaptive Controller Learning
    Shuqi Zhao, Ke Yang, Yuxin Chen, Chenran Li, Yichen Xie, Xiang Zhang, Changhao Wang, Masayoshi Tomizuka
    The paper directly addresses reinforcement learning for contact-rich dexterous manipulation by proposing an adaptive controller learning framework to bridge the sim-to-real gap.
  5. 100 relevance
    Deformable Cluster Manipulation Via Whole-Arm Policy Learning
    Jayadeep Jacob, Wenzheng Zhang, Houston Warren, Paulo Vinicius Koerich Borges, Fabio Ramos, Tirthankar Bandyopadhyay
    The paper explicitly focuses on using reinforcement learning for contact-rich, whole-arm manipulation of deformable object clusters.
  6. 100 relevance
    ViTacGen: Robotic Pushing with Vision-To-Touch Generation
    Zhiyuan Wu, Yijiong Lin, Yongqiang Zhao, Xuyang Zhang, Zhuo Chen, Nathan Lepora, SHAN LUO
    The paper explicitly focuses on reinforcement learning for robotic pushing, which is a quintessential contact-rich manipulation task, and proposes a method to integrate generated tactile feedback into the RL policy.
  7. 100 relevance
    Learning Dexterous Manipulation Skills from Imperfect Simulations
    Elvis Hsieh, Wen-Han Hsieh, Yen-Jen Wang, Toru Lin, Jitendra Malik, Koushil Sreenath, Haozhi Qi
    The paper directly addresses reinforcement learning for dexterous manipulation in highly contact-rich tasks like screwdriving and nut-bolt fastening.
  8. 100 relevance
    Multi-Quadruped Cooperative Object Transport: Learning Decentralized Pinch-Lift-Move
    Bikram Pandit, Aayam Shrestha, Alan Fern
    The paper directly addresses reinforcement learning for a complex contact-rich manipulation task involving cooperative transport via physical contact forces.
  9. 95 relevance
    The Developments and Challenges towards Dexterous and Embodied Robotic Manipulation: A Survey
    Gaofeng Li, Ruize Wang, Peisen Xu, Qi Ye, Jiming Chen
    The paper is a survey on dexterous robotic manipulation that explicitly identifies reinforcement learning as a key skill-learning framework for these inherently contact-rich tasks.
  10. 95 relevance
    RAMBO: RL-Augmented Model-Based Whole-Body Control for Loco-Manipulation
    Jin Cheng, Dongho Kang, Gabriele Fadini, Guanya Shi, Stelian Coros
    The paper directly addresses RL for loco-manipulation tasks involving complex physical interactions like pushing and balancing, which are inherently contact-rich.
  11. 95 relevance
    Opt2Skill: Imitating Dynamically-Feasible Whole-Body Trajectories for Versatile Humanoid Loco-Manipulation
    Fukang Liu, Zhaoyuan Gu, Yilin Cai, Ziyi Zhou, Hyunyoung Jung, Jaehwi Jang, Shijie Zhao, Sehoon Ha, Yue Chen, Danfei Xu, Ye Zhao
    The paper explicitly focuses on using reinforcement learning for contact-rich loco-manipulation tasks, such as wiping a table, by combining it with trajectory optimization.
  12. 90 relevance
    Flow with the Force Field: Learning 3D Compliant Flow Matching Policies from Force and Demonstration-Guided Simulation Data
    Tianyu Li, Yihan Li, Zizhe Zhang, Nadia Figueroa
    The paper directly addresses contact-rich manipulation and compliance using modern policy learning techniques, though it focuses more on imitation learning and flow matching than traditional reinforcement learning.
  13. 90 relevance
    CRAFT: Adapting VLA Models to Contact-Rich Manipulation Via Force-Aware Curriculum Fine-Tuning
    Yike Zhang, Yaonan Wang, Xinxin Sun, Kaizhen Huang, Zhiyuan Xu, Ji Junjie, Zhengping Che, Jian Tang, Kangcheng Liu, Jingtao Sun
    The paper directly addresses contact-rich manipulation by integrating force signals into VLA models, although it focuses on fine-tuning/imitation learning rather than explicit reinforcement learning.
  14. 85 relevance
    Planning-Guided Diffusion Policy Learning for Contact-Rich Bimanual Object Reorientation
    Xuanlin Li, Tong Zhao, Bo Ai, Xinghao Zhu, Jiuguang Wang, Tao Pang, Kuan Fang
    The paper directly addresses contact-rich manipulation and uses learning-based policies (Diffusion Policy/Behavior Cloning), which is closely related to reinforcement learning in the context of robotic control.
  15. 85 relevance
    PoCoDP3: Pose- and Contact-Aware Visual-Tactile Policy for Contact-Rich 3D Manipulation
    Zhaokun Yue, Ling Tong, Kun Qian
    The paper directly addresses contact-rich manipulation using a visual-tactile policy, though it utilizes imitation learning rather than reinforcement learning.
  16. 85 relevance
    Tactile-Conditioned Diffusion Policy for Force-Aware Robotic Manipulation
    Erik Helmut, Niklas Wilhelm Funk, Tim Schneider, Cristiana de Farias, Jan Peters
    The paper directly addresses contact-rich manipulation and force control using modern policy learning (Diffusion), although it employs imitation learning rather than reinforcement learning.
  17. 75 relevance
    Diffusing Trajectory Optimization Problems for Recovery During Multi-Finger Manipulation
    Abhinav Kumar, Fan Yang, Sergio Aguilera, Soshi Iba, Rana Soltani Zarrin, Dmitry Berenson
    The paper addresses contact-rich multi-finger manipulation and evaluates its method against a reinforcement learning baseline, although the primary proposed approach uses diffusion models and trajectory optimization.
  18. 70 relevance
    ShapeForce: Low-Cost Soft Robotic Wrist for Contact-Rich Manipulation
    Jinxuan Zhu, Zihao Yan, Yangyu Xiao, Jingxiang Guo, Chenrui Tie, Xinyi Cao, Yuhang Zheng, Lin Shao
    While the paper focuses on hardware and sensing rather than RL algorithms, it provides a low-cost method for obtaining the contact feedback essential for training and deploying RL policies in contact-rich manipulation.
  19. 65 relevance
    Tactile Memory for Continuous Policy Blending in Unified Force-Impedance Control
    Robin Jeanne Kirschner,, Hamid Sadeghian, and Sami Haddadin
    The paper focuses heavily on contact-rich manipulation and uses learning (BiLSTM), but it employs a control-theoretic approach with policy blending rather than reinforcement learning.
  20. 50 relevance
    Estimating Deformable-Rigid Contact Interactions for a Deformable Tool Via Learning and Model-Based Optimization
    Mark Van der Merwe, Miquel Oller, Dmitry Berenson, Nima Fazeli
    While the paper focuses heavily on contact-rich manipulation and uses learning for estimation, it employs model-based optimization (CQP) rather than reinforcement learning.
  21. 50 relevance
    CoorGrasp: Coordinated Contact Control for Adaptive Dexterous Grasping under Uncertainty
    Mingrui Yu, Yongpeng Jiang, Yongyi Jia, Yi Ren, Xiang LI
    The paper focuses on contact-rich manipulation (dexterous grasping), but it employs Model Predictive Control and analytical modeling rather than reinforcement learning.
  22. 40 relevance
    Spectral Decomposition of Inverse Dynamics for Fast Exploration in Model-Based Manipulation
    Solvin Sigurdson, Benjamin Riviere, Joel Burdick
    While the paper focuses on contact-rich manipulation, it proposes a model-based planning and search tree approach rather than reinforcement learning.
  23. 40 relevance
    IMPACT: Intelligent Motion Planning with Acceptable Contact Trajectories Via Vision-Language Models
    Yiyang Ling, Karan Owalekar, Oluwatobiloba Adesanya, Erdem Bıyık, Daniel Seita
    While the paper focuses on contact-rich manipulation, it utilizes Vision-Language Models and A* planning rather than reinforcement learning.
  24. 30 relevance
    Approximating Global Contact-Implicit MPC Via Sampling and Local Complementarity
    Sharanya Venkatesh, Bibit Bianchini, Alp Aydinoglu, William Yang, Michael Posa
    While the paper focuses on contact-rich manipulation, it proposes a Model Predictive Control (MPC) and sampling approach rather than Reinforcement Learning.
  25. 30 relevance
    Grasp, Slide, Roll: Comparative Analysis of Contact Modes for Tactile-Based Shape Reconstruction
    Chung Hee Kim, Shivani Kiran Kamtikar, Tye Brady, Taskin Padir, Joshua Migdal
    While the paper focuses on contact-rich manipulation through tactile sensing, it employs an information-theoretic exploration framework rather than reinforcement learning.