Contact-Rich Robotic Manipulation in Construction via Zero-Shot Learning: A Diffusion Policy-Guided Adaptive Control

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Original abstract

Construction robotics and automation offer promising means of improving productivity, alleviating workforce shortages, and reducing workers' exposure to physically demanding tasks. However, reliable contact-rich robotic assembly remains challenging under tight tolerances, fabrication inaccuracies, and uncertain contact dynamics. To address this challenge, we present a framework coupling diffusion policies trained on simulation-generated pose and force/torque data with an L1-inspired adaptive controller that corrects policy-predicted actions online to compensate for unmodeled contact dynamics. We benchmark the framework against baselines in timber joinery, pipe fitting, and sequential full-scale truss assembly. It achieves 100% success on single-task assemblies and 90-100% success across sequential truss assembly subtasks, with lower, more stable contact forces than the baselines. By enabling zero-shot sim-to-real transfer for force-aware contact-rich assembly, the framework reduces costly, labor-intensive real-world data collection for policy training and advances scalable, robust automation of multistage assembly, motivating extension to broader contact-rich manipulation tasks in construction.

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