ALPHA-α and Bi-ACT Are All You Need: Importance of Position and Force Information/ Control for Imitation Learning of Unimanual and Bimanual Robotic Manipulation with Low-Cost System

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2025-02-13
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  • This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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  • 10.1109/access.2025.3541200
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.

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Kobayashi M., Buamanee T., Kobayashi T.. ALPHA-α and Bi-ACT Are All You Need: Importance of Position and Force Information/ Control for Imitation Learning of Unimanual and Bimanual Robotic Manipulation with Low-Cost System. IEEE Access 13, 29886-29899 (2025); https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2025.3541200.

Autonomous manipulation in everyday tasks requires flexible action generation to handle complex, diverse real-world environments, such as objects with varying hardness and softness. Imitation Learning (IL) enables robots to learn complex tasks from expert demonstrations. However, a lot of existing methods rely on position/unilateral control, leaving challenges in tasks that require force information/control, like carefully grasping fragile or varying-hardness objects. As the need for diverse controls increases, there are demand for low-cost bimanual robots that consider various motor inputs. To address these challenges, we introduce Bilateral Control-Based Imitation Learning via Action Chunking with Transformers(Bi-ACT) and AL ow-cost Physical Hardware Considering Diverse Motor Control Modes for Research in Everyday Bimanual Robotic Manipulation (ALPHA-α). Bi-ACT leverages bilateral control to utilize both position and force information, enhancing the robot's adaptability to object characteristics such as hardness and shape. The concept of ALPHA-α is affordability, ease of use, repairability, ease of assembly, and diverse control modes such as position, velocity, and torque mode. In our experiments, we conducted detailed analysis of Bi-ACT in unimanual tasks involving objects with varying hardness, shape, and weight, confirming its superior performance and adaptability. We also applied Bi-ACT to bimanual tasks such as Egg Handling and Open Cap using ALPHA-α. The experimental outcomes demonstrated a high success rate in bimanual operations, validating the effectiveness of our approach in real-world scenarios. These results suggest that Bi-ACT and ALPHA-α can advance automation in daily life and industrial settings. Video available at: https://mertcookimg.github.io/alpha-biact/.

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    IEEE Access 13 29886-29899, 2025-02-13

    Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.

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