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We develop a hierarchical LLM-task-motion planning and replanning framework to efficiently ground an abstracted human command into tangible Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) control through enhanced representations of the world. We also…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Ruochu Yang , Fumin Zhang , Mengxue Hou

Most Human-Machine Interaction (HMI) research overlooks the maneuvering needs of passengers in autonomous driving (AD). Natural language offers an intuitive interface, yet translating passenger open-ended instructions into control signals,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Jiawei Liu , Xun Gong , Fen Fang , Muli Yang , Bohao Qu , Yunfeng Hu , Hong Chen , Xulei Yang , Qing Guo

Chip placement plays an important role in physical design. While generative models like diffusion models offer promising learning-based solutions, current methods have the following limitations: they use random synthetic data for…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Peng Xie , Ke Xue , Yunqi Shi , Ruo-Tong Chen , Chengrui Gao , Siyuan Xu , Chenjian Ding , Mingxuan Yuan , Chao Qian

Rapid robot motion generation is critical in Human-Robot Collaboration (HRC) systems, as robots need to respond to dynamic environments in real time by continuously observing their surroundings and replanning their motions to ensure both…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Sibo Tian , Minghui Zheng , Xiao Liang

Task planning can require defining myriad domain knowledge about the world in which a robot needs to act. To ameliorate that effort, large language models (LLMs) can be used to score potential next actions during task planning, and even…

In recent years, reinforcement learning and imitation learning have shown great potential for controlling humanoid robots' motion. However, these methods typically create simulation environments and rewards for specific tasks, resulting in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Jingkai Sun , Qiang Zhang , Yiqun Duan , Xiaoyang Jiang , Chong Cheng , Renjing Xu

The emerging integration of robots into everyday life brings several major challenges. Compared to classical industrial applications, more flexibility is needed in combination with real-time reactivity. Learning-based methods can train…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Thies Oelerich , Gerald Ebmer , Christian Hartl-Nesic , Andreas Kugi

Procedure planning requires a model to predict a sequence of actions that transform a start visual observation into a goal in instructional videos. While most existing methods rely primarily on visual observations as input, they often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Lei Shi , Victor Aregbede , Andreas Persson , Martin Längkvist , Amy Loutfi , Stephanie Lowry

The integration of large language models (LLMs) with control systems has demonstrated significant potential in various settings, such as task completion with a robotic manipulator. A main reason for this success is the ability of LLMs to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Rahel Rickenbach , Bruce Lee , René Zurbrügg , Carmen Amo Alonso , Melanie N. Zeilinger

Planning is a crucial task for agents in task oriented dialogs (TODs). Human agents typically resolve user issues by following predefined workflows, decomposing workflow steps into actionable items, and performing actions by executing APIs…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Shamik Roy , Sailik Sengupta , Daniele Bonadiman , Saab Mansour , Arshit Gupta

The recent breakthroughs in the research on Large Language Models (LLMs) have triggered a transformation across several research domains. Notably, the integration of LLMs has greatly enhanced performance in robot Task And Motion Planning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Yuchen Liu , Luigi Palmieri , Sebastian Koch , Ilche Georgievski , Marco Aiello

In task-oriented dialogue, a system often needs to follow a sequence of actions, called a workflow, that complies with a set of guidelines in order to complete a task. In this paper, we propose the novel problem of multi-step workflow…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Ramya Ramakrishnan , Ethan R. Elenberg , Hashan Narangodage , Ryan McDonald

Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have shown significant promise in various domains, especially robotics. However, most prior LLM-based work in robotic applications either directly predicts waypoints or applies LLMs within…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Yue Meng , Fei Chen , Yongchao Chen , Chuchu Fan

We propose a multi-robot control paradigm to solve point-to-point navigation tasks for a team of holonomic robots with access to the full environment information. The framework invokes two processes asynchronously at high frequency: (i) a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Ajay Shankar , Keisuke Okumura , Amanda Prorok

Autonomous navigation guided by natural language instructions is essential for improving human-robot interaction and enabling complex operations in dynamic environments. While large language models (LLMs) are not inherently designed for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Pranav Doma , Aliasghar Arab , Xuesu Xiao

Immersive Virtual Reality (iVR) applications have shown immense potential for skill training and learning in manufacturing. However, authoring of such applications requires technical expertise, which makes it difficult for educators to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Ananya Ipsita , Ramesh Kaki , Mayank Patel , Asim Unmesh , Kylie A. Peppler , Karthik Ramani

Multi-turn instruction following capability constitutes a core competency of large language models (LLMs) in real-world applications. Existing evaluation benchmarks predominantly focus on fine-grained constraint satisfaction and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Jinnan Li , Jinzhe Li , Yue Wang , Yi Chang , Yuan Wu

Efficiently training LLMs with long sequences is important yet challenged by the massive computation and memory requirements. Sequence parallelism has been proposed to tackle these problems, but existing methods suffer from scalability or…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Diandian Gu , Peng Sun , Qinghao Hu , Ting Huang , Xun Chen , Yingtong Xiong , Guoteng Wang , Qiaoling Chen , Shangchun Zhao , Jiarui Fang , Yonggang Wen , Tianwei Zhang , Xin Jin , Xuanzhe Liu

Flow matching policies learn continuous velocity fields that transport noise to actions, enabling fast deterministic inference for robot manipulation. However, standard training optimizes a pointwise velocity objective while inference…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Riad Ahmed , Sujosh Nag , Moniruzzaman Akash , Mostafa Hussein , Momotaz Begum

We study the task of zero-shot vision-and-language navigation (ZS-VLN), a practical yet challenging problem in which an agent learns to navigate following a path described by language instructions without requiring any path-instruction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Peihao Chen , Xinyu Sun , Hongyan Zhi , Runhao Zeng , Thomas H. Li , Gaowen Liu , Mingkui Tan , Chuang Gan