5 papers
LIRA: Local Cross-Layer Information Routing for Vision-Language-Action Decoding
Zhewei Zhang, Puyue Wang, Guanren Qiao +10
Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models transform representations from pretrained vision-language models (VLMs) into robot actions, yet the interface that routes intermediate VLM featu…
From Reaction to Anticipation: Proactive Failure Recovery through Agentic Task Graph for Robotic Manipulation
Sheng Xu, Ruixing Jin, Huayi Zhou +6
Although robotic manipulation has made significant progress, reliable execution remains challenging because task failures are inevitable in dynamic and unstructured environments. T…
SignBot: Learning Human-to-Humanoid Sign Language Interaction
Guanren Qiao, Sixu Lin, Ronglai Zuo +3
Sign language is a natural and visual form of language that uses movements and expressions to convey meaning, serving as a crucial means of communication for individuals who are de…
TrafficGamer: Reliable and Flexible Traffic Simulation for Safety-Critical Scenarios with Game-Theoretic Oracles
Guanren Qiao, Guorui Quan, Jiawei Yu +2
While modern Autonomous Vehicle (AV) systems can develop reliable driving policies under regular traffic conditions, they frequently struggle with safety-critical traffic scenarios…
HWC-Loco: A Hierarchical Whole-Body Control Approach to Robust Humanoid Locomotion
Sixu Lin, Guanren Qiao, Yunxin Tai +3
Humanoid robots, capable of assuming human roles in various workplaces, have become essential to embodied intelligence. However, as robots with complex physical structures, learnin…