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This paper introduces a novel dataset construction pipeline that samples pairs of frames from videos and uses multimodal large language models (MLLMs) to generate editing instructions for training instruction-based image manipulation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Mingdeng Cao , Xuaner Zhang , Yinqiang Zheng , Zhihao Xia

An interactive robot framework accomplishes long-horizon task planning and can easily generalize to new goals and distinct tasks, even during execution. However, most traditional methods require predefined module design, making it hard to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Boyi Li , Philipp Wu , Pieter Abbeel , Jitendra Malik

Even though intelligent systems such as Siri or Google Assistant are enjoyable (and useful) dialog partners, users can only access predefined functionality. Enabling end-users to extend the functionality of intelligent systems will be the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Sebastian Weigelt , Vanessa Steurer , Walter F. Tichy

Motion planning in complex scenarios is the core challenge in autonomous driving. Conventional methods apply predefined rules or learn from driving data to plan the future trajectory. Recent methods seek the knowledge preserved in large…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Ruijun Zhang , Xianda Guo , Wenzhao Zheng , Chenming Zhang , Kurt Keutzer , Long Chen

High-level human instructions often correspond to behaviors with multiple implicit steps. In order for robots to be useful in the real world, they must be able to to reason over both motions and intermediate goals implied by human…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-03-21 Chris Paxton , Yonatan Bisk , Jesse Thomason , Arunkumar Byravan , Dieter Fox

In this paper, we present a robotic navigation algorithm with natural language interfaces, which enables a robot to safely walk through a changing environment with moving persons by following human instructions such as "go to the restaurant…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-09-13 Zhe Hu , Jia Pan , Tingxiang Fan , Ruigang Yang , Dinesh Manocha

This paper investigates robot manipulation based on human instruction with ambiguous requests. The intent is to compensate for imperfect natural language via visual observations. Early symbolic methods, based on manually defined symbols,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Ruinian Xu , Hongyi Chen , Yunzhi Lin , Patricio A. Vela

The control of robots for manipulation tasks generally relies on visual input. Recent advances in vision-language models (VLMs) enable the use of natural language instructions to condition visual input and control robots in a wider range of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Chenglin Cui , Chaoran Zhu , Changjae Oh , Andrea Cavallaro

Recent years have witnessed many successful trials in the robot learning field. For contact-rich robotic tasks, it is challenging to learn coordinated motor skills by reinforcement learning. Imitation learning solves this problem by using a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Linqi Ye , Jiayi Li , Yi Cheng , Xianhao Wang , Bin Liang , Yan Peng

The speed and accuracy with which robots are able to interpret natural language is fundamental to realizing effective human-robot interaction. A great deal of attention has been paid to developing models and approximate inference algorithms…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-03-25 Siddharth Patki , Andrea F. Daniele , Matthew R. Walter , Thomas M. Howard

Robots are required to execute increasingly complex instructions in dynamic environments, which can lead to a disconnect between the user's intent and the robot's representation of the instructions. In this paper we present a natural…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-10-05 Adrian Boteanu , Jacob Arkin , Siddharth Patki , Thomas Howard , Hadas Kress-Gazit

Imitation learning in robots, also called programing by demonstration, has made important advances in recent years, allowing humans to teach context dependant motor skills/tasks to robots. We propose to extend the usual contexts…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-03-13 Thomas Cederborg , Pierre-Yves Oudeyer

While shared autonomy offers significant potential for assistive robotics, key questions remain about how to effectively map 2D control inputs to 6D robot motions. An intuitive framework should allow users to input commands effortlessly,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-29 Shalutha Rajapakshe , Jean-Marc Odobez , Emmanuel Senft

Human-robot interaction often occurs in the form of instructions given from a human to a robot. For a robot to successfully follow instructions, a common representation of the world and objects in it should be shared between humans and the…

Modern Reinforcement Learning (RL) algorithms promise to solve difficult motor control problems directly from raw sensory inputs. Their attraction is due in part to the fact that they can represent a general class of methods that allow to…

Language-Guided object recognition in remote sensing imagery is crucial for large-scale mapping and automated data annotation. However, existing open-vocabulary and visual grounding methods rely on explicit category cues, limiting their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Yijie Zheng , Weijie Wu , Qingyun Li , Xuehui Wang , Xu Zhou , Aiai Ren , Jun Shen , Long Zhao , Guoqing Li , Xue Yang

This paper describes a framework called MaestROB. It is designed to make the robots perform complex tasks with high precision by simple high-level instructions given by natural language or demonstration. To realize this, it handles a…

Controlling a high degrees of freedom humanoid robot is acknowledged as one of the hardest problems in Robotics. Due to the lack of mathematical models, an approach frequently employed is to rely on human intuition to design keyframe…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-01-03 Luckeciano Carvalho Melo , Marcos Ricardo Omena Albuquerque Maximo , Adilson Marques da Cunha

Bagging is an essential skill that humans perform in their daily activities. However, deformable objects, such as bags, are complex for robots to manipulate. This paper presents an efficient learning-based framework that enables robots to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Francisco Munguia-Galeano , Jihong Zhu , Juan David Hernández , Ze Ji

Conventional robots possess a limited understanding of their kinematics and are confined to preprogrammed tasks, hindering their ability to leverage tools efficiently. Driven by the essential components of tool usage - grasping the desired…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Prathamesh Kothavale , Sravani Boddepalli