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license: apache-2.0
task_categories:
- robotics
tags:
- LeRobot
- robotics
- isaac-lab
- forge
- manipulation
- peg-insertion
- force-torque
---
# Forge v1 — contact-rich manipulation with force/torque, 3 tasks
Expert demonstrations for the three [Isaac Lab](https://github.com/isaac-sim/IsaacLab) **FORGE**
tasks, collected from trained `rl_games` PPO policies. Successful episodes only; the failures from
the same collection are published separately as
[`angledusgar/forge-failure-v1`](https://huggingface.co/datasets/angledusgar/forge-failure-v1).
Beyond the usual LIBERO-shaped fields this dataset carries the **wrist force/torque signal**, which
is what makes contact-rich insertion legible: the peg/hole clearance is 0.114 mm, far below what a
224×224 camera can resolve, so the moment of contact and the onset of a jam are visible in the
wrench long before they are visible in pixels.
## Contents
| task | episodes | steps/episode | prompt |
|---|---|---|---|
| `Isaac-Forge-PegInsert-Direct-v0` | ~984 | 149 | "insert the peg into the socket" |
| `Isaac-Forge-GearMesh-Direct-v0` | ~996 | 299 | "mesh the gear onto the shaft" |
| `Isaac-Forge-NutThread-Direct-v0` | ~988 | 449 | "thread the nut onto the bolt" |
| **total** | **2,968** | — | 888,032 frames |
All three tasks live in one repository, distinguished by the per-frame task string
(`meta/tasks.jsonl`), the same packing `physical-intelligence/libero` uses.
## Features
| key | dtype | shape | meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| `image` | video (AV1) | 256×256×3 | fixed third-person camera, one per environment |
| `wrist_image` | video (AV1) | 256×256×3 | wrist camera, mounted on `panda_hand` |
| `state` | float32 | (8,) | `eef_pos` (3) + axis-angle from `eef_quat` (3) + gripper joints (2) |
| `actions` | float32 | (7,) | the executed Forge environment action |
| **`ft`** | float32 | (6,) | wrench at the wrist in the EE frame — force (3) then torque (3), smoothed |
| **`ft_noisy`** | float32 | (3,) | the force the policy actually observed, with Forge's observation noise |
`state` is deliberately 8-D and named as in the openpi LIBERO conversion, so
`LeRobotLiberoDataConfig` can be reused unchanged; `ft` / `ft_noisy` are extra keys that openpi's
`RepackTransform` simply drops. Robot is a Franka Panda; fps 15 (Forge control rate); LeRobot
dataset format `v2.1`.
Two force channels are kept on purpose: a detector can be *trained* on the clean wrench while being
*evaluated* on the noisy signal the robot really had.
## How it was collected
Sixteen environments were stepped in lockstep — Factory/Forge resets all environments together, so
each window yields exactly N equal-length episodes — with the expert acting deterministically.
Episodes were kept regardless of outcome and split by result afterwards.
| task | expert checkpoint | success rate |
|---|---|---|
| PegInsert | 300-epoch PPO, trained 2026-06-30 on the **stock** task | ~96% |
| GearMesh | 300-epoch PPO, trained 2026-08-01 | ~99% |
| NutThread | 300-epoch PPO, trained 2026-08-01 | ~98% |
## ⚠️ Reproducing PegInsert
The PegInsert episodes were collected under **stock Forge dynamics**, but the Isaac Lab checkout
used for collection has `ForgeTaskPegInsert` modified for a separate study (higher and wider spawn,
plus a ±10° tilt of the peg *inside the gripper* to induce jams). Collection therefore overrode six
knobs back to their stock values:
```python
hand_init_pos = [0.0, 0.0, 0.047]
hand_init_pos_noise = [0.02, 0.02, 0.01]
hand_init_orn_noise = [0.0, 0.0, 0.785]
held_asset_pos_noise = [0.003, 0.0, 0.003]
fixed_asset_init_tilt_deg = 0.0
held_asset_tilt_deg = 0.0
```
On an unmodified Isaac Lab these are already the defaults, so **run it as-is**. GearMesh and
NutThread were never modified. This matters: the 2026-06-30 PegInsert expert scores ~96% on stock
dynamics and **0/12** on the modified variant, and a policy trained on the modified variant plateaus
at a reward of 72.7 against 345.5 on stock — the same task name, two different problems.
## Loading
```python
from lerobot.common.datasets.lerobot_dataset import LeRobotDataset
ds = LeRobotDataset("angledusgar/forge-v1")
sample = ds[0]
sample["image"] # (3, 256, 256)
sample["ft"] # (6,) force + torque
```
If video decoding fails with a `torchcodec` import error, the machine is missing FFmpeg shared
libraries; pass `video_backend="pyav"` or install ffmpeg.
## Known gaps
- **Arm joint angles are not included.** Only the two gripper joints were recorded; `state`
follows the LIBERO convention, which is end-effector-based. Adding `joint_pos` requires
re-collection and is planned for a future version.
- One shard was lost to a corrupted HDF5 file (a writer killed mid-write), costing at most 47
PegInsert episodes out of ~1,010 collected for that task.
- Success rates are high by construction, so the failure set is small; see
`forge-failure-v1` for the 51 failures and read its card before treating them as a balanced
negative set.
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