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This paper presents a vision-based learning-by-demonstration approach to enable robots to learn and complete a manipulation task cooperatively. With this method, a vision system is involved in both the task demonstration and reproduction…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-06-05 Bidan Huang , Menglong Ye , Su-Lin Lee , Guang-Zhong Yang

Control policy learning for modular robot locomotion has previously been limited to proprioceptive feedback and flat terrain. This paper develops policies for modular systems with vision traversing more challenging environments. These…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Julian Whitman , Howie Choset

Large Language Models (LLMs) have been shown to act like planners that can decompose high-level instructions into a sequence of executable instructions. However, current LLM-based planners are only able to operate with a fixed set of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Meenal Parakh , Alisha Fong , Anthony Simeonov , Tao Chen , Abhishek Gupta , Pulkit Agrawal

Prompting has recently been shown as a promising approach for applying pre-trained language models to perform downstream tasks. We present Multi-Stage Prompting (MSP), a simple and automatic approach for leveraging pre-trained language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Zhixing Tan , Xiangwen Zhang , Shuo Wang , Yang Liu

Recent advancements in open-world robot manipulation have been largely driven by vision-language models (VLMs). While these models exhibit strong generalization ability in high-level planning, they struggle to predict low-level robot…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Chuanruo Ning , Kuan Fang , Wei-Chiu Ma

Designing dense reward functions is pivotal for efficient robotic Reinforcement Learning (RL). However, most dense rewards rely on manual engineering, which fundamentally limits the scalability and automation of reinforcement learning.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Xunlan Zhou , Xuanlin Chen , Shaowei Zhang , ShengHua Wan , Xiaohai Hu , Lei Yuan , De-chuan Zhan

This study proposes LiP-LLM: integrating linear programming and dependency graph with large language models (LLMs) for multi-robot task planning. In order for multiple robots to perform tasks more efficiently, it is necessary to manage the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Kazuma Obata , Tatsuya Aoki , Takato Horii , Tadahiro Taniguchi , Takayuki Nagai

Recently, there has been a surge in the popularity of pre trained large language models (LLMs) (such as GPT-4), sweeping across the entire Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Computer Vision (CV) communities. These LLMs have demonstrated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Shuxiao Ma , Linyuan Wang , Senbao Hou , Bin Yan

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) demonstrate remarkable performance across a wide range of domains, with increasing emphasis on enhancing their zero-shot generalization capabilities for unseen tasks across various modalities.…

Recent research has demonstrated the potential of reinforcement learning (RL) in enabling effective multi-robot collaboration, particularly in social dilemmas where robots face a trade-off between self-interests and collective benefits.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Shahab Nikkhoo , Zexin Li , Aritra Samanta , Yufei Li , Cong Liu

Multi-modal large language models (MLLMs) have rapidly advanced in visual tasks, yet their spatial understanding remains limited to single images, leaving them ill-suited for physical-world applications that require multi-frame reasoning.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Runsen Xu , Weiyao Wang , Hao Tang , Xingyu Chen , Xiaodong Wang , Fu-Jen Chu , Matt Feiszli , Kevin J. Liang

Recently, 3D understanding has become popular to facilitate autonomous agents to perform further decisionmaking. However, existing 3D datasets and methods are often limited to specific tasks. On the other hand, recent progress in Large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Mingsheng Li , Xin Chen , Chi Zhang , Sijin Chen , Hongyuan Zhu , Fukun Yin , Gang Yu , Tao Chen

Prompt engineering is a technique that involves augmenting a large pre-trained model with task-specific hints, known as prompts, to adapt the model to new tasks. Prompts can be created manually as natural language instructions or generated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Jindong Gu , Zhen Han , Shuo Chen , Ahmad Beirami , Bailan He , Gengyuan Zhang , Ruotong Liao , Yao Qin , Volker Tresp , Philip Torr

Learned visuomotor policies have shown considerable success as an alternative to traditional, hand-crafted frameworks for robotic manipulation. Surprisingly, an extension of these methods to the multiview domain is relatively unexplored. A…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-11 Trevor Ablett , Yifan Zhai , Jonathan Kelly

In human environments, robots are expected to accomplish a variety of manipulation tasks given simple natural language instructions. Yet, robotic manipulation is extremely challenging as it requires fine-grained motor control, long-term…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Pierre-Louis Guhur , Shizhe Chen , Ricardo Garcia , Makarand Tapaswi , Ivan Laptev , Cordelia Schmid

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have shown impressive reasoning abilities and general intelligence in various domains. It inspires researchers to train end-to-end MLLMs or utilize large models to generate policies with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Qi Lv , Hao Li , Xiang Deng , Rui Shao , Michael Yu Wang , Liqiang Nie

Vision-language models (VLMs) have achieved remarkable success in scene understanding and perception tasks, enabling robots to plan and execute actions adaptively in dynamic environments. However, most multimodal large language models lack…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Guoqin Tang , Qingxuan Jia , Zeyuan Huang , Gang Chen , Ning Ji , Zhipeng Yao

We present a large language model (LLM) based system to empower quadrupedal robots with problem-solving abilities for long-horizon tasks beyond short-term motions. Long-horizon tasks for quadrupeds are challenging since they require both a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Yutao Ouyang , Jinhan Li , Yunfei Li , Zhongyu Li , Chao Yu , Koushil Sreenath , Yi Wu

Prompting robots with natural language (NL) has largely been studied as what task to execute (goal selection, skill sequencing) rather than how to execute that task safely and efficiently in semantically rich, human-centric spaces. We…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Mani Amani , Behrad Beheshti , Reza Akhavian

We investigate the use of Large Language Models (LLMs) to equip neural robotic agents with human-like social and cognitive competencies, for the purpose of open-ended human-robot conversation and collaboration. We introduce a modular and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Philipp Allgeuer , Hassan Ali , Stefan Wermter