Enabling Robust Cloth Manipulation via Inference-Time Simulator-in-the-Loop Refinement
Simulator-in-the-loop optimization offers a promising inference-time mechanism for robot manipulation. It uses a physical simulator as a backend rollout engine to evaluate candidate trajectories in parallel and refine nominal actions online, a paradigm proven effective in rigid-body manipulation where state and contact are relatively tractable. We bring this paradigm to real-world cloth manipulation from a single RGB input through three pillars. (i) We design a scalable synthetic-data generation and inference-time rollout pipeline built on FLASH, a deformable-object simulator that provides a practical balance among physical fidelity, numerical stability, and rollout efficiency. (ii) We develop a real-to-sim module, trained purely on synthetic data, that maps a single RGB observation to simulation-compatible cloth state by fusing pretrained visual features with learnable canonical tokens. (iii) We perform online planning by coupling a sparse-mesh rollout backend with prior-guided MPPI, anchored at an offline-distilled policy trajectory, preserving manipulation-relevant deformation and contact while enabling sufficient parallel rollout batches. Real-robot experiments show higher success rates and stronger robustness than baseline methods.
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