PECHC: Robust Tactile Grasping Stabilization in Vision-Denied Peripersonal Space
Proceedings of the Thirty-Fifth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. AI and Robotics. Pages 7549-7557.
https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2026/839
Keywords
- Learning to understand, generalize, and explain actions: Learning from language, corrections, preferences, and sparse feedback
- Robot control, planning, and execution with guarantees: Safe and robust control under uncertainty
- AIR: Generative AI, robotic foundation models, and reinforcement learning
- AIR: Robot control, planning, and execution with guarantees
Abstract
In the final "Last-Centimeter" phase of manipulation, where visual occlusion or calibration errors render vision unreliable, robots often suffer high failure rates due to local pose uncertainty and simulation dynamics deviations. To address these issues, this paper proposes the PECHC (Physics-Evolving Cascade Constraint and Human-Correction) algorithm. To rigorously isolate the contribution of tactile feedback in multi-finger coordination, we adopt a decoupled control strategy that focuses on grasp stabilization within the hand's workspace, acting as a fail-safe reflex. The core of our approach is Hybrid Correction Imitation Learning (HCIL), which establishes a "failure-triggered" human-machine mechanism to efficiently resolve the "model gap" via sparse expert corrections. To ensure sample efficiency and baseline performance, we introduce two supporting modules: Cascaded Constraint Scheduling (CCS) addresses the "geometric gap" by enforcing physically plausible behavioral constraints (geometric approach, force closure, and dynamic stability), while Temporal Heterogeneous Distillation (THED) resolves the "physical gap" by enabling implicit system identification from tactile history. Experiments demonstrate that PECHC achieves a 97.3% real-robot success rate on 150 objects from the Visual Dexterity Dataset under fully autonomous testing, where one object is used for one-time HCIL calibration and the remaining 149 objects are evaluated without further intervention. Compared to a standard Sim-to-Real reinforcement learning baseline (Vanilla PPO with Domain Randomization), PECHC delivers a significant performance improvement (+42.8%) and exhibits human-like force modulation capabilities for fragile objects.
@inproceedings{ijcai2026p839,
title = {PECHC: Robust Tactile Grasping Stabilization in Vision-Denied Peripersonal Space},
author = {Chen, Changlin and Chen, Sisheng and Zhang, Hang and Zhou, Xianglai and Tian, Zhen and Liu, Weitao and Cui, Feng-Qi and Dong, Erbao and Chen, Wenjing},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Thirty-Fifth International Joint Conference on
Artificial Intelligence, {IJCAI-26}},
publisher = {International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization},
editor = {Diego Calvanese},
pages = {7549--7557},
year = {2026},
month = {8},
note = {AI and Robotics},
doi = {10.24963/ijcai.2026/839},
url = {https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2026/839},
}
TY - CPAPER TI - PECHC: Robust Tactile Grasping Stabilization in Vision-Denied Peripersonal Space AU - Chen, Changlin AU - Chen, Sisheng AU - Zhang, Hang AU - Zhou, Xianglai AU - Tian, Zhen AU - Liu, Weitao AU - Cui, Feng-Qi AU - Dong, Erbao AU - Chen, Wenjing T2 - Proceedings of the Thirty-Fifth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI-26 PB - International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization PY - 2026 SP - 7549 EP - 7557 DO - 10.24963/ijcai.2026/839 UR - https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2026/839 ER -Copied
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