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Robot Synesthesia: In-Hand Manipulation with Visuotactile Sensing

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arxiv 2312.01853 v3 pith:KNUZU3PI submitted 2023-12-04 cs.RO cs.CVcs.LG

Robot Synesthesia: In-Hand Manipulation with Visuotactile Sensing

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keywords robotin-handmanipulationsynesthesiatactileinputsintegrationsensory
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Executing contact-rich manipulation tasks necessitates the fusion of tactile and visual feedback. However, the distinct nature of these modalities poses significant challenges. In this paper, we introduce a system that leverages visual and tactile sensory inputs to enable dexterous in-hand manipulation. Specifically, we propose Robot Synesthesia, a novel point cloud-based tactile representation inspired by human tactile-visual synesthesia. This approach allows for the simultaneous and seamless integration of both sensory inputs, offering richer spatial information and facilitating better reasoning about robot actions. The method, trained in a simulated environment and then deployed to a real robot, is applicable to various in-hand object rotation tasks. Comprehensive ablations are performed on how the integration of vision and touch can improve reinforcement learning and Sim2Real performance. Our project page is available at https://yingyuan0414.github.io/visuotactile/ .

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