9 papers
What Matters in Quality-Aware VLA Pretraining: A Benchmark and Empirical Study
Mingxuan Yan, Litian Gong, Dihong Huang +19
How should demonstration quality be used during vision-language-action (VLA) pretraining to improve performance after target-task fine-tuning? We compare weighting, filtering, and…
OpenWAM: An Open, Modular Exploration Towards Systematic World-Action Model Pretraining
Yuran Wang, Siqiao Huang, Mingleyang Li +21
World-Action Models inherit world knowledge from video-generative priors, and channel it into executable control signals through embodied experience. Existing systems, however, are…
ShapeForce: Low-Cost Soft Robotic Wrist for Contact-Rich Manipulation
Jinxuan Zhu, Zihao Yan, Yangyu Xiao +5
Contact feedback is essential for contact-rich robotic manipulation, as it allows the robot to detect subtle interaction changes and adjust its actions accordingly. Six-axis force-…
LISN: Language-Instructed Social Navigation with VLM-based Controller Modulating
Junting Chen, Yunchuan Li, Panfeng Jiang +5
Towards human-robot coexistence, socially aware navigation is significant for mobile robots. Yet existing studies on this area focus mainly on path efficiency and pedestrian collis…
AdaptPNP: Integrating Prehensile and Non-Prehensile Skills for Adaptive Robotic Manipulation
Jinxuan Zhu, Chenrui Tie, Xinyi Cao +8
Non-prehensile (NP) manipulation, in which robots alter object states without forming stable grasps (for example, pushing, poking, or sliding), significantly broadens robotic manip…
Manual2Skill++: Connector-Aware General Robotic Assembly from Instruction Manuals via Vision-Language Models
Chenrui Tie, Shengxiang Sun, Yudi Lin +9
Assembly hinges on reliably forming connections between parts; yet most robotic approaches plan assembly sequences and part poses while treating connectors as an afterthought. Conn…
Goal-VLA: Image-Generative VLMs as Object-Centric World Models Empowering Zero-shot Robot Manipulation
Haonan Chen, Jingxiang Guo, Bangjun Wang +7
Generalization remains a fundamental challenge in robotic manipulation. To tackle this challenge, recent Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models build policies on top of Vision-Languag…
MetaFold: Language-Guided Multi-Category Garment Folding Framework via Trajectory Generation and Foundation Model
Haonan Chen, Junxiao Li, Ruihai Wu +9
Garment folding is a common yet challenging task in robotic manipulation. The deformability of garments leads to a vast state space and complex dynamics, which complicates precise…
Manual2Skill: Learning to Read Manuals and Acquire Robotic Skills for Furniture Assembly Using Vision-Language Models
Chenrui Tie, Shengxiang Sun, Jinxuan Zhu +7
Humans possess an extraordinary ability to understand and execute complex manipulation tasks by interpreting abstract instruction manuals. For robots, however, this capability rema…