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preprint2026arXiv

A Model-based Visual Contact Localization and Force Sensing System for Compliant Robotic Grippers

Grasp force estimation can help prevent robots from damaging delicate objects during manipulation and improve learning-based robotic control. Integrating force sensing into deformable grippers negotiates trade-offs in cost, complexity, mechanical robustness, and performance. With the growing integration of RGB-D wrist cameras into robotic systems for control purposes, camera-based techniques are a promising solution for indirect visual force estimation. Current approaches mostly utilize end-to-end deep learning, which can be brittle when generalizing to new scenarios, while existing model-based approaches are unsuited to grasping and modern grasper geometries. To address these challenges, we developed a model-based visual force sensing approach integrating an iterative contact localization with generalization to unseen objects. The system extracts structural key points from wrist camera RGB-D images of deforming fin-ray-shaped soft grippers, and uses these key points to define parameters of an inverse finite element analysis simulation in Simulation Open Framework Architecture. The iterative contact localization sub-system utilizes a deep learning-based online 3D reconstruction and pose estimation pipeline to dynamically update contact location, and is robust to visual occlusion and unseen objects. Our system demonstrated an average root mean square error of 0.23 N and normalized root mean square deviation of 2.11% during the load phase, and 0.48 N and 4.34% over the entire grasping process when interacting with different objects under various conditions, showcasing its potential for real-time model-based indirect force sensing of soft grippers.

preprint2026arXiv

How to make Medical AI Systems safer? Simulating Vulnerabilities, and Threats in Multimodal Medical RAG System

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) augmented with Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) are increasingly employed in medical AI to enhance factual grounding through external clinical image-text retrieval. However, this reliance creates a significant attack surface. We propose MedThreatRAG, a novel multimodal poisoning framework that systematically probes vulnerabilities in medical RAG systems by injecting adversarial image-text pairs. A key innovation of our approach is the construction of a simulated semi-open attack environment, mimicking real-world medical systems that permit periodic knowledge base updates via user or pipeline contributions. Within this setting, we introduce and emphasize Cross-Modal Conflict Injection (CMCI), which embeds subtle semantic contradictions between medical images and their paired reports. These mismatches degrade retrieval and generation by disrupting cross-modal alignment while remaining sufficiently plausible to evade conventional filters. While basic textual and visual attacks are included for completeness, CMCI demonstrates the most severe degradation. Evaluations on IU-Xray and MIMIC-CXR QA tasks show that MedThreatRAG reduces answer F1 scores by up to 27.66% and lowers LLaVA-Med-1.5 F1 rates to as low as 51.36%. Our findings expose fundamental security gaps in clinical RAG systems and highlight the urgent need for threat-aware design and robust multimodal consistency checks. Finally, we conclude with a concise set of guidelines to inform the safe development of future multimodal medical RAG systems.