Uncertainty-Aware Finger Force Estimation for Reliable Box Manipulation

Anonymous Authors

With force adaptation

FEEL
Task success 10/10 · Damage-free 10/10 · Reliability 10/10

Without force adaptation

Baseline
Task success 10/10 · Damage-free 7/10 · Reliability 7/10

10 trials per condition, using the same box specification and predefined motion. Reliability = successful placement without recorded damage.

Trial status

Applied to all experiment grids below.

Success Failure

Success indicates task completion without recorded damage. Failure indicates an incomplete task or recorded damage.

With force estimation experiments

(Kp, Kd) = (200, 400)

Force-adaptive manipulation driven by FEEL estimates.

Trial 01Success
Trial 02Success
Trial 03Success
Trial 04Success
Trial 05Success
Trial 06Success
Trial 07Success
Trial 08Success
Trial 09Success
Trial 10Success

Without force estimation experiments

(Kp, Kd) = (200, 400)

Fixed finger commands without force-estimation feedback.

Trial 01Success
Trial 02Success
Trial 03Success
Trial 04Success
Trial 05Success
Trial 06Success
Trial 07Success
Trial 08Failure
Trial 09Failure
Trial 10Failure

Gain comparison experiments

Ten force-adaptive box-manipulation trials for each controller-gain setting.

(Kp, Kd) = (100, 200)

RMSE: 0.233 ± 0.005 N

10 trials
Trial 01Success
Trial 02Success
Trial 03Success
Trial 04Success
Trial 05Failure
Trial 06Failure
Trial 07Failure
Trial 08Failure
Trial 09Failure
Trial 10Failure

(Kp, Kd) = (200, 400)

Used in the main experiments

RMSE: 0.251 ± 0.010 N

10 trials
Trial 01Success
Trial 02Success
Trial 03Success
Trial 04Success
Trial 05Success
Trial 06Success
Trial 07Success
Trial 08Success
Trial 09Success
Trial 10Success

(Kp, Kd) = (300, 600)

RMSE: 0.255 ± 0.008 N

10 trials
Trial 01Success
Trial 02Success
Trial 03Success
Trial 04Success
Trial 05Success
Trial 06Success
Trial 07Success
Trial 08Failure
Trial 09Failure
Trial 10Failure

Data collection

Wearable F/T reference measurements synchronized with per-finger proprioceptive histories.

L Thumb
L Index
L Middle
L Ring
L Little
R Thumb
R Index
R Middle
R Ring
R Little

Approximately 25,000 synchronized estimator samples were collected per finger. Robot states and F/T measurements were aligned by timestamp.

Uncertainty-aware force estimation

Per-finger force estimates and predictive uncertainty under proprioceptive ambiguity.

Predictive uncertainty is shown alongside the per-finger force estimates.

Trial video