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arxiv: 2606.08555 · v1 · pith:SCQPGLLOnew · submitted 2026-06-07 · 💻 cs.RO

FAWAM: Force-Aware World Action Models for Closed-Loop Contact-Rich Manipulation

Haotian He , Zeyu Yan , Qipeng Liu , Ning Guo , Wenzhao Lian This is my paper

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keywords force-aware manipulationworld action modelscontact-rich tasksclosed-loop controlwrench predictionresidual correctionrobotic manipulationforce feedback
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FAWAM encodes force signals at perception, prediction, and closed-loop execution to raise success rates in contact-rich robotic tasks.

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The paper presents FAWAM, a world action model that brings force/torque data into three stages of robotic control. Historical 6-axis signals modulate generated actions, future actions and end-effector wrenches are predicted jointly to capture contact changes, and a residual correction module uses the predicted wrench trajectory as a live reference to adjust actions from real-time feedback. Experiments on several contact-rich tasks report average success-rate gains of 36.25 percent over vision-only baselines and 21.25 percent over prior force-aware methods. A reader would care because force supplies direct interaction information that vision alone often misses when objects touch or slide.

Core claim

FAWAM first encodes historical 6-axis force/torque signals to modulate action generation, then jointly predicts future actions and end-effector wrenches to explicitly model contact evolution, and finally applies a residual correction module that uses the predicted wrench trajectory as an execution-time reference to refine actions online based on real-time force feedback.

What carries the argument

The residual correction module, which treats the predicted wrench trajectory as a real-time reference signal to adjust actions during execution.

If this is right

  • Joint prediction of actions and wrenches produces an explicit model of how contacts evolve over time.
  • Real-time force feedback drives online refinement of planned actions without retraining.
  • The same architecture delivers measurable gains on multiple distinct contact-rich manipulation tasks.
  • Performance exceeds both pure vision baselines and earlier force-augmented approaches by the reported margins.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • If the wrench-prediction head remains accurate on unseen objects, the method could support rapid adaptation to new contact-rich tasks with minimal additional data.
  • The three-level force integration could be tested in simulation-to-real transfer settings to check whether predicted wrenches help close the reality gap.
  • Scaling the residual correction to multi-finger or dual-arm systems would reveal whether the same reference-signal approach remains stable at higher degrees of freedom.

Load-bearing premise

The residual correction module will generate stable online refinements without introducing instability or needing task-specific tuning that was not reported.

What would settle it

A controlled ablation that disables the residual correction module and measures whether success rates fall back to baseline levels or whether action execution becomes unstable on the same contact-rich tasks.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2606.08555 by Haotian He, Ning Guo, Qipeng Liu, Wenzhao Lian, Zeyu Yan.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Comparison between force-conditioned prediction and our method. (left) Adding force as additional observation alone fails to correct contact deviation while (right) systematic force integration in three levels restores proper contact for successful wiping. 2 Related Work Force-Aware Manipulation Policies. Recent works [6, 9, 15, 18, 19, 20] have explored various strategies to incorporate force signals into… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Overview of FAWAM. FAWAM incorporates force signals through force-conditioned action generation, future force prediction, and online residual correction. (a) The Force-Envisioned Action Model conditions on visual, language and force inputs to jointly predict action chunks and future force trajectories. (b) The Force-Guided Residual Correction module learns from human interventions and corrects the base act… view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Contact-rich tasks. Each task is evaluated under diverse contact conditions induced by controlled changes in surface inclination, table height, or the position of the sand-filled box. 4 Experimental Results 4.1 Experimental Setup Hardware Platform. All real-world experiments are conducted on a Franka Research 3 (FR3), a 7-DoF robotic arm. An ATI Axia80-M8 6-axis force/torque sensor is mounted at the wrist … view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Execution time comparison. Lower values indicate faster completion with less inefficient contact adjustment. 73.75% without additional correction data, showing that the proposed force-envisioned action model already provides a strong base policy. The residual corrector further improves execution robustness by compensating for contact deviations during deployment. 4.3 Ablation Study [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figure… view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Perturbation rollouts comparison. With perturbations, force-guided residual correction help FAWAM recover stable contact, while the model without correction fails to adapt [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_5.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Experimental environment. The setup consists of a Franka robot for task execution, a FACTR leader robot for force-feedback teleoperation, and multiple Intel RealSense cameras for multi-view visual observation. A.2 Residual-Only Ablation Details The Res-only ablation isolates the effect of residual correction without the predicted wrench guid￾ance used by the full model in Sec. 3.3.1. Since this variant doe… view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: Comparative Correction Experiments for Erase Board. w/o Correction w/ Correction [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p015_7.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 8. Figure 8: Comparative Correction Experiments for Peel Cucumber. 15 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p015_8.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 9. Figure 9: Comparative Correction Experiments for Pivot Box. w/o Correction w/Correction [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p016_9.png] view at source ↗
Figure 10
Figure 10. Figure 10: Comparative Correction Experiments for Wipe Vase. A.5 Additional Visualization Supplement Figures 11–14 complement the ablation study in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p016_10.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 11. Figure 11: Ablation qualitative supplement for Erase Board [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p017_11.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 12. Figure 12: Ablation qualitative supplement for Peel Cucumber. 17 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p017_12.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 13. Figure 13: Ablation qualitative supplement for Pivot Box [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p018_13.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 14. Figure 14: Ablation qualitative supplement for Wipe Vase. 18 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p018_14.png] view at source ↗
Figure 15
Figure 15. Figure 15: Success rate under different τ . In this analysis, we evaluate the effect of different residual activation thresholds τ . A smaller τ makes the residual gate easier to activate, so residual cor￾rections are more frequently added to the base ac￾tion chunk. We test τ ∈ {0, 0.2, 0.5, 0.8, 0.99} on the Peel Cucumber and Wipe Vase tasks. As shown in the [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p019_15.png] view at source ↗
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Force signals provide critical interaction cues for contact-rich robotic manipulation. However, existing methods mostly use force as an additional observation modality, without fully exploiting its role in modeling future interaction dynamics or guiding execution-time feedback correction. In this paper, we propose FAWAM, a force-aware world action model that incorporates force information at three levels: perception, prediction, and closed-loop execution. FAWAM first encodes historical 6-axis force/torque signals to modulate action generation, then jointly predicts future actions and end-effector wrenches to explicitly model contact evolution. It further introduces a residual correction module that uses the predicted wrench trajectory as an execution-time reference to refine actions online based on real-time force feedback. Real-world experiments across multiple contact-rich tasks show that FAWAM improves the average success rate by 36.25% over vision-only baselines and 21.25% over existing force-aware baselines, demonstrating the effectiveness of our force-aware framework for robust contact-rich manipulation.

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Summary. The paper proposes FAWAM, a force-aware world action model for closed-loop contact-rich robotic manipulation. Force information is incorporated at three levels: perception (encoding historical 6-axis force/torque signals to modulate action generation), prediction (jointly forecasting future actions and end-effector wrenches to model contact evolution), and execution (a residual correction module that uses the predicted wrench trajectory as an online reference to refine actions based on real-time force feedback). Real-world experiments across multiple tasks claim average success-rate improvements of 36.25% over vision-only baselines and 21.25% over existing force-aware baselines.

Significance. If the empirical claims hold under rigorous validation, the explicit modeling of wrench trajectories for closed-loop residual correction represents a meaningful step toward more reliable force-aware control in contact-rich tasks, where vision-only methods often fail due to unmodeled dynamics.

major comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: the headline success-rate gains (36.25% / 21.25%) are presented without any reported trial counts, statistical tests, variance measures, task definitions, or failure-mode analysis, rendering it impossible to assess whether the data support the central empirical claim.
  2. [Method (residual correction)] Residual correction module: no stability analysis, ablation on feedback gains, or evidence of fixed-hyperparameter generalization across tasks is supplied, which is load-bearing for the claim that the module delivers the reported improvements without introducing instability.
minor comments (1)
  1. [Abstract] The abstract would be clearer if it briefly named the specific contact-rich tasks evaluated.

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We thank the referee for the constructive comments. We address each major point below and indicate where revisions will be made to strengthen the manuscript.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: the headline success-rate gains (36.25% / 21.25%) are presented without any reported trial counts, statistical tests, variance measures, task definitions, or failure-mode analysis, rendering it impossible to assess whether the data support the central empirical claim.

    Authors: We agree that the abstract, due to length constraints, omits these supporting details. The full manuscript reports trial counts, variance, task definitions, and failure modes in the Experiments section. To address the concern directly in the abstract, we will revise it to include trial counts and variance measures. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Method (residual correction)] Residual correction module: no stability analysis, ablation on feedback gains, or evidence of fixed-hyperparameter generalization across tasks is supplied, which is load-bearing for the claim that the module delivers the reported improvements without introducing instability.

    Authors: The referee is correct that the current manuscript supplies no formal stability analysis, gain ablations, or explicit generalization evidence for the residual correction module. While experiments show consistent gains without instability, this constitutes a gap in the supporting analysis. We will add an ablation on feedback gains and a discussion of hyperparameter generalization in the revised version. revision: yes

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The paper's central claims rest on real-world experimental success rates (36.25% and 21.25% improvements) across contact-rich tasks. No equations, derivations, fitted parameters renamed as predictions, or self-citation chains appear in the provided abstract or method description. The residual correction module is presented as a component of the architecture, but its performance is evaluated empirically rather than derived from prior self-referential steps. This is a standard non-finding for an applied robotics paper whose contributions are measured by hardware results rather than theoretical reduction.

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