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Designing effective data manipulation methods is a long standing problem in data lakes. Traditional methods, which rely on rules or machine learning models, require extensive human efforts on training data collection and tuning models.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Yichen Qian , Yongyi He , Rong Zhu , Jintao Huang , Zhijian Ma , Haibin Wang , Yaohua Wang , Xiuyu Sun , Defu Lian , Bolin Ding , Jingren Zhou

Vision-language models (VLMs) have demonstrated strong performance in 2D scene understanding and generation, but extending this unification to the physical world remains an open challenge. Existing 3D and 4D approaches typically embed scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Hanyu Zhou , Gim Hee Lee

While robots can learn models to solve many manipulation tasks from raw visual input, they cannot usually use these models to solve new problems. On the other hand, symbolic planning methods such as STRIPS have long been able to solve new…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Kei Kase , Chris Paxton , Hammad Mazhar , Tetsuya Ogata , Dieter Fox

Planning is a fundamental activity, arising frequently in many contexts, from daily tasks to industrial processes. The planning task consists of selecting a sequence of actions to achieve a specified goal from specified initial conditions.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Carla Davesa Sureda , Joan Espasa Arxer , Ian Miguel , Mateu Villaret Auselle

Bridging the gap between natural language commands and autonomous execution in unstructured environments remains an open challenge for robotics. This requires robots to perceive and reason over the current task scene through multiple…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Jin Wang , Kim Tien Ly , Jacques Cloete , Nikos Tsagarakis , Ioannis Havoutis

In this work, we present Uni3DL, a unified model for 3D and Language understanding. Distinct from existing unified vision-language models in 3D which are limited in task variety and predominantly dependent on projected multi-view images,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Xiang Li , Jian Ding , Zhaoyang Chen , Mohamed Elhoseiny

In complex embodied long-horizon manipulation tasks, effective task decomposition and execution require synergistic integration of textual logical reasoning and visual-spatial imagination to ensure efficient and accurate operation. Current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Xinyan Cai , Shiguang Wu , Dafeng Chi , Yuzheng Zhuang , Xingyue Quan , Jianye Hao , Qiang Guan

Vision Language Models (VLMs) play a crucial role in robotic manipulation by enabling robots to understand and interpret the visual properties of objects and their surroundings, allowing them to perform manipulation based on this multimodal…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Nurhan Bulus Guran , Hanchi Ren , Jingjing Deng , Xianghua Xie

In robotic task planning, symbolic planners using rule-based representations like PDDL are effective but struggle with long-sequential tasks in complicated environments due to exponentially increasing search space. Meanwhile, LLM-based…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Minseo Kwon , Yaesol Kim , Young J. Kim

Vision Language Models (VLMs) show strong potential for visual planning but struggle with precise spatial and long-horizon reasoning, while Planning Domain Definition Language (PDDL) planners excel at formal long-horizon planning but cannot…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Yilun Hao , Yongchao Chen , Chuchu Fan , Yang Zhang

Long-horizon task planning for heterogeneous multi-robot systems is essential for deploying collaborative teams in real-world environments; yet, it remains challenging due to the large volume of perceptual information, much of which is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Piyush Gupta , Sangjae Bae , Jiachen Li , David Isele

This paper introduces RoboDexVLM, an innovative framework for robot task planning and grasp detection tailored for a collaborative manipulator equipped with a dexterous hand. Previous methods focus on simplified and limited manipulation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Haichao Liu , Sikai Guo , Pengfei Mai , Jiahang Cao , Haoang Li , Jun Ma

Integrating Large Language Models with symbolic planners is a promising direction for obtaining verifiable and grounded plans, with recent work extending this idea to visual domains using Vision-Language Models (VLMs). However, a rigorous…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Matteo Merler , Nicola Dainese , Minttu Alakuijala , Giovanni Bonetta , Pietro Ferrazzi , Yu Tian , Bernardo Magnini , Pekka Marttinen

Advancements in large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated their potential in facilitating high-level reasoning, logical reasoning and robotics planning. Recently, LLMs have also been able to generate reward functions for low-level…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Marta Skreta , Zihan Zhou , Jia Lin Yuan , Kourosh Darvish , Alán Aspuru-Guzik , Animesh Garg

Task and motion planning problems in robotics combine symbolic planning over discrete task variables with motion optimization over continuous state and action variables. Recent works such as PDDLStream have focused on optimistic planning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Mohamed Khodeir , Ben Agro , Florian Shkurti

A key challenge in complex visuomotor control is learning abstract representations that are effective for specifying goals, planning, and generalization. To this end, we introduce universal planning networks (UPN). UPNs embed differentiable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-04-05 Aravind Srinivas , Allan Jabri , Pieter Abbeel , Sergey Levine , Chelsea Finn

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

We introduce a new method that extracts knowledge from a large language model (LLM) to produce object-level plans, which describe high-level changes to object state, and uses them to bootstrap task and motion planning (TAMP). Existing work…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-24 David Paulius , Alejandro Agostini , Benedict Quartey , George Konidaris

Medical vision-language pre-training (Med-VLP) models have recently accelerated the fast-growing medical diagnostics application. However, most Med-VLP models learn task-specific representations independently from scratch, thereby leading…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Chenlu Zhan , Yufei Zhang , Yu Lin , Gaoang Wang , Hongwei Wang

Enabling robots to learn long-horizon manipulation tasks from a handful of demonstrations remains a central challenge in robotics. Existing neuro-symbolic approaches often rely on hand-crafted symbolic abstractions, semantically labeled…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Pierrick Lorang , Johannes Huemer , Timothy Duggan , Kai Goebel , Patrik Zips , Matthias Scheutz