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Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models are a promising path to realizing generalist embodied agents that can quickly adapt to new tasks, modalities, and environments. However, methods for interpreting and steering VLAs fall far short of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Bear Häon , Kaylene Stocking , Ian Chuang , Claire Tomlin

Robotic manipulation requires anticipating how the environment evolves in response to actions, yet most existing systems lack this predictive capability, often resulting in errors and inefficiency. While Vision-Language Models (VLMs)…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Songen Gu , Yunuo Cai , Tianyu Wang , Simo Wu , Yanwei Fu

Visual Odometry (VO) is a method to estimate self-motion of a mobile robot using visual sensors. Unlike odometry based on integrating differential measurements that can accumulate errors, such as inertial sensors or wheel encoders, visual…

This paper presents an adaptive visual servoing framework for robotic on-orbit servicing (OOS), specifically designed for capturing tumbling satellites. The vision-guided robotic system is capable of selecting optimal control actions in the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Farhad Aghili

Chunked vision-language-action (VLA) policies predict multi-step robot controls, conditioning each update on the current visual observation alone. Yet robot actions cause contact, occlusion, and object motion, and the geometry that later…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Chushan Zhang , Ruihan Lu , Jinguang Tong , Xuesong Li , Yikai Wang , Hongdong Li

The proliferation of spectroscopic data across various scientific and engineering fields necessitates automated processing. We introduce OASIS (Omni-purpose Analysis of Spectra via Intelligent Systems), a machine learning (ML) framework for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Chris Young , Juejing Liu , Marie L. Mortensen , Yifu Feng , Elizabeth Li , Zheming Wang , Xiaofeng Guo , Kevin M. Rosso , Xin Zhang

Embodied intelligence systems, which enhance agent capabilities through continuous environment interactions, have garnered significant attention from both academia and industry. Vision-Language-Action models, inspired by advancements in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Haoran Li , Yuhui Chen , Wenbo Cui , Weiheng Liu , Kai Liu , Mingcai Zhou , Zhengtao Zhang , Dongbin Zhao

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have emerged as a promising paradigm for robot learning, but their representations are still largely inherited from static image-text pretraining, leaving physical dynamics to be learned from…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Teli Ma , Jia Zheng , Zifan Wang , Chunli Jiang , Andy Cui , Junwei Liang , Shuo Yang

Vision-language-action models (VLAs) have become an increasingly popular approach for addressing robot manipulation problems in recent years. However, such models need to output actions at a rate suitable for robot control, which limits the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Eric Hannus , Miika Malin , Tran Nguyen Le , Ville Kyrki

Vision-language-action (VLA) models have shown strong performance in robotic manipulation, yet their robustness to physically realizable adversarial attacks remains underexplored. Existing studies reveal vulnerabilities through language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Jiawei Chen , Simin Huang , Jiawei Du , Shuaihang Chen , Yu Tian , Mingjie Wei , Chao Yu , Zhaoxia Yin

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models combine perception, language, and motor control in a single architecture, yet how they translate multimodal inputs into actions remains poorly understood. We apply activation injection, sparse…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Bryce Grant , Xijia Zhao , Peng Wang

PointGoal navigation in indoor environment is a fundamental task for personal robots to navigate to a specified point. Recent studies solved this PointGoal navigation task with near-perfect success rate in photo-realistically simulated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Yijun Cao , Xianshi Zhang , Fuya Luo , Chuan Lin , Yongjie Li

In dynamic environments such as warehouses, hospitals, and homes, robots must seamlessly transition between gross motion and precise manipulations to complete complex tasks. However, current Vision-Language-Action (VLA) frameworks, largely…

Robust perception and dynamics modeling are fundamental to real-world robotic policy learning. Recent methods employ video diffusion models (VDMs) to enhance robotic policies, improving their understanding and modeling of the physical…

Recent advances in Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models demonstrate that visual signals can effectively complement sparse action supervisions. However, letting VLA directly predict high-dimensional visual states can distribute model capacity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Yi Yang , Xueqi Li , Yiyang Chen , Jin Song , Yihan Wang , Zipeng Xiao , Jiadi Su , You Qiaoben , Pengfei Liu , Zhijie Deng

Traditional visual object tracking (VOT) methods typically rely on task-specific supervised training, limiting their generalization to unseen objects and challenging scenarios with distractors, occlusion, and nonlinear motion. Recent vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Deyi Zhu , Yuji Wang , Yong Liu , Yansong Tang , Bingyao Yu , Jiwen Lu , Jie Zhou

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have recently enabled robotic manipulation by grounding visual and linguistic cues into actions. However, most VLAs assume the Markov property, relying only on the current observation and thus suffering…

Automatically generating agile whole-body motions for legged and humanoid robots remains a fundamental challenge in robotics. While numerous trajectory optimization approaches have been proposed, there is no clear guideline on how the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Evangelos Tsiatsianas , Chairi Kiourt , Konstantinos Chatzilygeroudis

3D semantic occupancy prediction is a pivotal task in autonomous driving, providing a dense and fine-grained understanding of the surrounding environment, yet single-modality methods face trade-offs between camera semantics and LiDAR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-02 A. Enes Doruk , Hasan F. Ates

Recent advances in Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have opened new avenues for robot manipulation, yet existing methods exhibit limited efficiency and a lack of high-level knowledge and spatial awareness. To address these challenges, we…