PhysPart: Physically Plausible Part Completion for Interactable Objects

Rundong Luo*1, Haoran Geng*2,3, Congyue Deng3, Puhao Li4,
Zan Wang4, Baoxiong Jia4, Leonidas Guibas3, Siyuan Huang4
* Equal Contribution
1Cornell University    2University of California, Berkeley    3Stanford University    4BIGAI

Abstract

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Interactable objects are everywhere, yet modeling their physics remains challenging due to inter-part motion constraints. We tackle this by proposing a diffusion-based part generation model that ensures physically plausible part completion. Our approach leverages classifier-free guidance for geometric conditioning and introduces stability and mobility losses to enforce physical constraints. We further enable dependent part generation, advancing toward sequential modeling of complex object hierarchies. To evaluate physical plausibility, we introduce a motion success rate metric. Our model surpasses baselines in shape and physical metrics and demonstrates practical utility in 3D printing, robot manipulation, and sequential part generation.

Framework

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We train a pose proposal model to predict the missing part's bounding box and a latent diffusion model conditioned on the input object's point cloud and the missing part's bounding box within the latent space of part SDF. During inference, the trained pose proposal model first predicts the missing part's bounding box. We then apply the proposed physical-aware losses (contact and collision losses in static or dynamics states) to guide the sampling process.

Abstract

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Interactable objects are everywhere, yet modeling their physics remains challenging due to inter-part motion constraints. We tackle this by proposing a diffusion-based part generation model that ensures physically plausible part completion. Our approach leverages classifier-free guidance for geometric conditioning and introduces stability and mobility losses to enforce physical constraints. We further enable dependent part generation, advancing toward sequential modeling of complex object hierarchies. To evaluate physical plausibility, we introduce a motion success rate metric. Our model surpasses baselines in shape and physical metrics and demonstrates practical utility in 3D printing, robot manipulation, and sequential part generation.

Experiments: Qualitative Comparisons

Application: Sequential Part Generation


We use our method to first generate the self-moving parts and then generate the dependent parts.

Application: Simulation for Robot Manipulation


The part generated by our method can be well integrated into existing robot simulation environments.

Application: 3D Printing


The generated parts can be directly used for 3D printing, demonsrating their physical plausibility.