Efficient visual-tactile transformer with token reorganization for robotic slip detection
摘要
Transformer architectures have gained prominence in robotic slip detection owing to their capacity in capturing spatio-temporal correlations within multimodal sensory streams. Nevertheless, the conventional full-token self-attention mechanism inherent in standard Transformers introduces certain limitations, including quadratic computational complexity, data-hungry training requirements. To address these limitations, we propose a token reorganization scheme, leveraging class token attention saliency in the deep layers of the neural network to dynamically reorganize tokens. This approach selectively retains task-critical information in the visual-tactile modalities, while efficiently compressing background tokens through adaptive averaging, thereby optimizing computational efficiency without compromising performance. This scheme reduces the computational complexity of salient self-attention. Based on this scheme, a visual-tactile fusion Transformer for robot slip detection is developed. Extensive experiments have shown that the proposed Transformer can achieve state-of-the-art performance, which will reduce the computational cost, while increasing the detection accuracy to 86.75% by enhancing the focus on deformation-sensitive features. This work provides an effective visual-tactile perception solution for robust robot manipulation under real-world uncertainties. Our code and dataset are available at https://github.com/Bugs-Bunny01/VTF-AVIT.