Name
Tech. Session XII - 254
Date & Time
Thursday, June 26, 2025, 2:10 PM - 2:35 PM
Description
Assembly operations in manufacturing, especially those involving precise alignment and force control, pose significant challenges for automation. Tasks like fitting a battery cover onto a housing require careful manipulation to ensure proper alignment and insertion without causing damage. We propose leveraging imitation learning by collecting demonstrations through hand-guided manipulation, capturing both vision and force/torque data from sensors mounted on the robot's end-effector. These demonstrations are used to train a bimanual robotic system where one arm holds the battery housing securely while the other inserts the top cover. To enable this, we extend the diffusion policy framework by incorporating real-time force feedback and visual observations. Additionally, we introduce data segmentation and augmentation methods to reduce the number of required demonstrations, enhancing the policy's robustness to task failures. Our results show that the proposed method, even with a small dataset, achieves high success rates and efficiency compared to standard diffusion techniques. We demonstrate that the bimanual system effectively performs precise alignment and insertion of the battery cover, highlighting its potential for complex assembly tasks in manufacturing settings.
Location Name
Crepe Myrtle
Full Address
Hyatt Regency
220 N Main St
Greenville, SC 29601
United States
Session Type
Technical Session
Paper #
NAMRC 254
Author List
Rishabh Shukla, Samrudh Moode, Raj Talan and Satyandra K. Gupta
Paper Title
Learning Force-Conditioned Visuomotor Diffusion Policy from Human Demonstrations for Complex Robotic Assembly Tasks
Presenter Name
Satyandra Gupta
Session Chair
Satyandra K. Gupta, Matthew Krugh
Presenter Email
guptask@usc.edu