FWBC-VLA: Force-Aware Whole-Body Compensation for Contact-Rich Loco-Manipulation
2026-09-07 12:00Models🔥 42.2 heat score
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To address the issue of integrating semantic action generation with physical interaction control in contact-rich mobile manipulation tasks, researchers proposed the FWBC-VLA framework. This framework introduces a sensorless residual torque estimator (HSR-Force) to infer contact intensity and its temporal changes, and encodes contact information as tokens to be injected into the VLA action expert to perceive contact states. In mobile-manipulation tasks, the pre-trained VLA backbone network is fine-tuned using the WL&Arm dataset containing over 5,000 scenarios, and the robot’s proprioception, Jacobian-derived force estimates, and contact state are jointly inputted into a compensation generator to generate corrective actions. Finally, the combined operation center actions and corrective actions are transmitted to the WBC policy execution. The framework was verified as effective in real-world experiments such as whiteboard wiping and opening doors with door closers.