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
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