arxivcs.RO2026-07-17
BayesContact: Uncertain Pose Estimation via Visuo-Tactile Proposals and Simulation-based Inference
Aditya Kamireddypalli, Matias Mattamala, Joao Moura, Russell Buchanan, Sethu Vijayakumar, Subramanian Ramamoorthy
Contact-rich manipulation requires pose estimates that are often more accurate than what depth-only sensing provides. Existing methods, relying on vision and contact, employ costly offline training procedures that need to be retrained for new environments and geometries. We propo…