Interpreting Contact Interactions to Overcome Failure in Robot Assembly Tasks

Peter A. Zachares,Michelle A. Lee,Wenzhao Lian,Jeannette Bohg,Peter A. Zachares,Michelle A. Lee,Wenzhao Lian,Jeannette Bohg

A key challenge towards autonomous multi-part object assembly is robust sensorimotor control under uncertainty. In contrast to previous works that rely on a priori knowledge on whether two parts match, we aim to learn this through physical interaction. We propose a hierarchical approach that enables a robot to autonomously assemble parts while being uncertain about part types and positions. In par...