L-SDPPO: Policy Optimization of Spiking Diffusion Policy for Intra-vehicular Robotic Manipulation

Intra-vehicular robots in spacecraft help reduce astronaut workload and improve mission efficiency. Recent research focuses on using deep learning methods to achieve the acute control required for operations in these complex environments. However, objects exhibit unpredictable, unconstrained drift without gravitational damping. These factors demand robustness against complex multimodal action distributions. Diffusion policies (DP) can model these complex actions, but their iterative sampling process consumes too much energy for the limited power budgets of spacecraft. We therefore propose a low-energy intra-vehicular robotic manipulation framework, L-SDPPO, in which the Spiking Diffusion Policy (SDP) is optimized with a reinforcement learning (RL) algorithm. Furthermore, to address the insufficient perception of dynamic spatiotemporal features in microgravity, we propose the statedependent latency injection (SDLI) mechanism, which mimics biological neural delays to dynamically regulate the timing of input information. Evaluation on five representative intra-vehicular daily tasks (e.g., hatch opening and precision container capping) shows that our method consistently achieves higher success rates and lower energy consumption, compared to the state-of-the-art robotic manipulation methods. These results demonstrate our method is a viable intra-vehicular robotic manipulation method.

Prior Policy Guided Dual-Agent Coordinated Manipulation Planning of Spacecraft-Manipulator System

The strong dynamic coupling between the manipulator and the base poses a significant challenge to maintaining spacecraft attitude stability, potentially compromising mission safety. In this paper, we propose a Dual-Agent Coordinated Manipulation Planning (DACMP) framework that simultaneously achieves high-precision end-effector pose reaching for a 6-DoF space manipulator and attitude stabilization of the base spacecraft. To enhance learning efficiency, we present a prior policy-guided Deep Reinforcement Learning algorithm incorporating the Timestep-level Expert Switching Guidance (TESG) mechanism, thereby promoting global convergence and improving task success rates. Extensive experiments demonstrate that DACMP significantly outperforms baseline DRL algorithms in terms of task success rate and control precision. Furthermore, the robustness of DACMP is validated under various challenging scenarios, including system constraints, environmental disturbances, and perception uncertainties. The code and simulation configurations are available on GitHub: https://github.com/HIT-YuhuiHu/DACMP.