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New PACE method enhances robot sim-to-real transfer using proprioception

Researchers have developed a new method called PACE (Proprioception-Anchored Cross-Modal Encoder) to improve the transfer of reinforcement learning policies from simulation to real-world robotics tasks. PACE leverages proprioceptive data, which remains consistent across simulation and hardware, to anchor visual and force/torque representations. This approach helps the model suppress domain-specific visual variations and focus on task-relevant motion cues. When deployed on four contact-rich assembly tasks, policies trained with PACE achieved a 93.3% success rate in the real world with minimal sim-to-real drop, outperforming baseline methods. AI

IMPACT Enhances sim-to-real transfer for robotic assembly tasks, potentially accelerating real-world deployment of AI-trained robots.

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Yuhan Wang, Yurou Chen, Hongye Jiang, Wenzhao Lian ·

    Zero-Shot Sim-to-Real Contact-Rich Assembly via Proprioception-Anchored Cross-Modal Pretraining

    arXiv:2609.07534v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Contact-rich assembly remains challenging because it requires submillimeter spatial accuracy and reliable interpretation of forces during sustained contact. Although simulation-based reinforcement learning offers a scalable traini…