AnoF-Diff: One-Step Diffusion-Based Anomaly Detection for Forceful Tool Use
This addresses anomaly detection for forceful tool use in robotics, but it is incremental as it adapts diffusion models to a specific domain.
The paper tackled anomaly detection in noisy, non-stationary force-torque data from forceful tool use by proposing AnoF-Diff, a diffusion-based method that achieved better F1-score and AUROC compared to state-of-the-art methods on four tasks.
Multivariate time-series anomaly detection, which is critical for identifying unexpected events, has been explored in the field of machine learning for several decades. However, directly applying these methods to data from forceful tool use tasks is challenging because streaming sensor data in the real world tends to be inherently noisy, exhibits non-stationary behavior, and varies across different tasks and tools. To address these challenges, we propose a method, AnoF-Diff, based on the diffusion model to extract force-torque features from time-series data and use force-torque features to detect anomalies. We compare our method with other state-of-the-art methods in terms of F1-score and Area Under the Receiver Operating Characteristic curve (AUROC) on four forceful tool-use tasks, demonstrating that our method has better performance and is more robust to a noisy dataset. We also propose the method of parallel anomaly score evaluation based on one-step diffusion and demonstrate how our method can be used for online anomaly detection in several forceful tool use experiments.