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The concept of dynamical movement primitives (DMPs) has become popular for modeling of motion, commonly applied to robots. This paper presents a framework that allows a robot operator to adjust DMPs in an intuitive way. Given a generated…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Martin Karlsson , Anders Robertsson , Rolf Johansson

With the continuous expansion of Large Language Models (LLMs) and advances in reinforcement learning, LLMs have demonstrated exceptional reasoning capabilities, enabling them to address a wide range of complex problems. Inspired by these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Hongrui Jia , Chaoya Jiang , Shikun Zhang , Wei Ye

Large Language Models (LLMs) and Vision Language Models (VLMs) have become popular tools for embodied high-level planning. However, their deployment in black-box settings often leads to unpredictable or costly errors. To harness their…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Hao Wang , Sathwik Karnik , Bea Lim , Somil Bansal

Vision-Language Models (VLM) can generate plausible high-level plans when prompted with a goal, the context, an image of the scene, and any planning constraints. However, there is no guarantee that the predicted actions are geometrically…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Zhutian Yang , Caelan Garrett , Dieter Fox , Tomás Lozano-Pérez , Leslie Pack Kaelbling

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities across a wide range of vision-language tasks. However, their performance as embodied agents, which requires multi-round dialogue spatial reasoning and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Xunyi Zhao , Gengze Zhou , Qi Wu

Vision Language Models (VLMs) perform well on standard video tasks but struggle with physics-related reasoning involving motion dynamics and spatial interactions. We present a novel approach to address this gap by translating physical-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Xiyang Wu , Zongxia Li , Jihui Jin , Guangyao Shi , Gouthaman KV , Vishnu Raj , Nilotpal Sinha , Jingxi Chen , Fan Du , Dinesh Manocha

With the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence, there is an increasing demand for intelligent robots capable of assisting humans in daily tasks and performing complex operations. Such robots not only require task planning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Huihui Guo , Huilong Pi , Yunchuan Qin , Zhuo Tang , Kenli Li

Intelligent interaction with the real world requires robotic agents to jointly reason over high-level plans and low-level controls. Task and motion planning (TAMP) addresses this by combining symbolic planning and continuous trajectory…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Denis Shcherba , Eckart Cobo-Briesewitz , Cornelius V. Braun , Marc Toussaint

Large language models (LLMs) exhibit a variety of promising capabilities in robotics, including long-horizon planning and commonsense reasoning. However, their performance in place recognition is still underexplored. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Zonglin Lyu , Juexiao Zhang , Mingxuan Lu , Yiming Li , Chen Feng

Although Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) excel at various image-related tasks, they encounter challenges in precisely aligning coordinates with spatial information within images, particularly in position-aware tasks such as visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Wei Tang , Yanpeng Sun , Qinying Gu , Zechao Li

Vision language models (VLMs) are an exciting emerging class of language models (LMs) that have merged classic LM capabilities with those of image processing systems. However, the ways that these capabilities combine are not always…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Qiucheng Wu , Handong Zhao , Michael Saxon , Trung Bui , William Yang Wang , Yang Zhang , Shiyu Chang

A robot in a human-centric environment needs to account for the human's intent and future motion in its task and motion planning to ensure safe and effective operation. This requires symbolic reasoning about probable future actions and the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Moritz A. Graule , Volkan Isler

Large Language Models (LLMs) pre-trained on internet-scale datasets have shown impressive capabilities in code understanding, synthesis, and general purpose question-and-answering. Key to their performance is the substantial prior knowledge…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Andrea Tagliabue , Kota Kondo , Tong Zhao , Mason Peterson , Claudius T. Tewari , Jonathan P. How

Recent works have shown great potentials of Large Language Models (LLMs) in robot task and motion planning (TAMP). Current LLM approaches generate text- or code-based reasoning chains with sub-goals and action plans. However, they do not…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Yongchao Chen , Yilun Hao , Yang Zhang , Chuchu Fan

Recent advances in data-driven models for grounded language understanding have enabled robots to interpret increasingly complex instructions. Two fundamental limitations of these methods are that most require a full model of the environment…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-10-23 Siddharth Patki , Ethan Fahnestock , Thomas M. Howard , Matthew R. Walter

Large Language Models (LLMs) have succeeded remarkably in various natural language processing (NLP) tasks, yet their reasoning capabilities remain a fundamental challenge. While LLMs exhibit impressive fluency and factual recall, their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Avinash Patil , Aryan Jadon

Large language models (LLMs) show their powerful automatic reasoning and planning capability with a wealth of semantic knowledge about the human world. However, the grounding problem still hinders the applications of LLMs in the real-world…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Shaohui Peng , Xing Hu , Qi Yi , Rui Zhang , Jiaming Guo , Di Huang , Zikang Tian , Ruizhi Chen , Zidong Du , Qi Guo , Yunji Chen , Ling Li

With the emergence of Large Language Models (LLMs) and Vision Foundation Models (VFMs), multimodal AI systems benefiting from large models have the potential to equally perceive the real world, make decisions, and control tools as humans.…

Finding an efficient way to adapt robot trajectory is a priority to improve overall performance of robots. One approach for trajectory planning is through transferring human-like skills to robots by Learning from Demonstrations (LfD). The…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Jayden Hong , Zengjie Zhang , Amir M. Soufi Enayati , Homayoun Najjaran

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) is a challenging task that requires a robot to navigate in photo-realistic environments with human natural language promptings. Recent studies aim to handle this task by constructing the semantic spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Jiacui Huang , Hongtao Zhang , Mingbo Zhao , Zhou Wu