FA-RDP: A Frequency-Adaptive Reactive Diffusion Policy for Contact-Rich Manipulation
arXiv preprint, 2026 · * Equal contribution
FA-RDP addresses the trade-off between diverse motion planning and rapid force feedback in contact-rich manipulation. A shared visual-force Transformer supports both low-frequency, multi-step diffusion sampling before contact and high-frequency, single-step control after contact. A learned multimodality indicator selects the appropriate frequency, while Manifold Consistency Distillation enables fast action prediction on the robot action manifold. Experiments on three manipulation tasks demonstrate improved success rates while preserving diverse pre-contact trajectories.