Leveraging future observation modeling to facilitate action generation presents a promising avenue for enhancing the capabilities of Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models. However, existing approaches struggle to strike a balance between maintaining efficient, predictable future representations and preserving sufficient fine-grained information to guide precise action generation. To address this limitation, we propose WoG (World Guidance), a framework that maps future observations into compact conditions by injecting them into the action inference pipeline. The VLA is then trained to simultaneously predict these compressed conditions alongside future actions, thereby achieving effective world modeling within the condition space for action inference. We demonstrate that modeling and predicting this condition space not only facilitates fine-grained action generation but also exhibits superior generalization capabilities. Moreover, it learns effectively from substantial human manipulation videos. Extensive experiments across both simulation and real-world environments validate that our method significantly outperforms existing methods based on future prediction. Project page is available at: https://selen-suyue.github.io/WoGNet/
Discrete Forcing: Infusing Discrete Guidance into Continuous Denoising for Few-Step Action Experts
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)(香港科技大学(广州));South China University of Technology(华南理工大学);University of Science and Technology of China(中国科学技术大学);Westlake University(西湖大学);Zhejiang University(浙江大学);Tsinghua University(清华大学)
PokeVLA: Empowering Pocket-Sized Vision-Language-Action Model with Comprehensive World Knowledge Guidance
CASIA(中国科学院自动化研究所);TARS Robotics(TARS机器人实验室);Tsinghua University(清华大学);Fudan University(复旦大学);National University of Singapore(新加坡国立大学);Tongji University(同济大学)
Align-Then-stEer: Adapting the Vision-Language Action Models through Unified Latent Guidance
Institute of Artificial Intelligence, China Telecom(中国电信人工智能研究院);Tsinghua University(清华大学);The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen(香港中文大学(深圳));Northwestern Polytechnical University(西北工业大学)
Barrier-Constrained Guidance For Real-time Asynchronous VLA Execution
Beijing Forestry University(北京林业大学);Gaoling School of Artificial Intelligence, Renmin University of China(中国人民大学高瓴人工智能学院);Beijing Innovation Center of Humanoid Robotics(北京人形机器人创新中心)
CAC-VLA: Context-Gated Action Conditioning for Vision-Language-Action Models
University of Science and Technology of China (USTC)(中国科学技术大学);Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Hefei Comprehensive National Science Center(合肥综合性国家科学中心人工智能研究院)
Vision-Language-Action Jump-Starting for Reinforcement Learning Robotic Agents
University of Applied Science and Arts of Southern Switzerland, Department of Innovative Technologies(瑞士南方应用科学与艺术大学创新技术系);Università della Svizzera Italiana, Faculty of Informatics, Lugano, Switzerland(瑞士意大利大学信息学院,卢加诺,瑞士)
The recently advanced robotics technology enables robots to assist users in their daily lives. Haptic guidance (HG) improves users' task performance through physical interaction between robots and users. It can be classified into optimal action-based HG (OAHG), which assists users with an optimal action, and user prediction-based HG (UPHG), which assists users with their next predicted action. This study aims to understand the difference between OAHG and UPHG and propose a combined HG (CombHG) that achieves optimal performance by complementing each HG type, which has important implications for…
Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo(东京大学生产技术研究所)
For the optimum design of a driver-automation shared control system, an understanding of driver behavior based on measurements and modeling is crucial early in the development process. This paper presents a driver model through a weighting process of visual guidance from the road ahead and haptic guidance from a steering system for a lane-following task. The proposed weighting process describes the interaction of a driver with the haptic guidance steering and the driver reliance on it. A driving simulator experiment is conducted to identify the model parameters for driving manually and with ha…
Action-Conditioned World Model for Goal Plane Probe Guidance in Robotic Ultrasound
Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, Chinese University of Hong Kong(香港中文大学机械与自动化工程学系);Department of Biomedical Engineering, City University of Hong Kong(香港城市大学生物医学工程学系);Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Hong Kong Institute of Science & Innovation, Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院香港创新研究院人工智能与机器人中心);Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院自动化研究所);Department of Surgical and Interventional Engineering, King’s College London(伦敦国王大学外科与介入工程学系);Department of Vascular Ultrasound, Xuanwu Hospital, the Capital Medical University(首都医科大学宣武医院血管超声科)
ManipDreamer: Boosting Robotic Manipulation World Model with Action Tree and Visual Guidance
State Key Laboratory of Multimedia Information Processing(多媒体信息处理国家重点实验室);School of Computer Science, Peking University(北京大学计算机学院);Hong Kong University of Science and Technology(香港科技大学);Autonomous Driving Development, NIO(蔚来自动驾驶研发)
The thesis presents contributions made to the evaluation and design of a haptic guidance system on improving driving performance in cases of normal and degraded visual information, which are based on behavior experiments, modeling and numerical simulations. The effect of shared control on driver behavior in cases of normal and degraded visual information has been successfully evaluated experimentally and numerically. The evaluation results indicate that the proposed haptic guidance system is capable of providing reliable haptic information, and is effective on improving lane following performa…
Generative Multi-Robot Motion Planning via Diffusion Modeling with Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Guidance
School of Manufacturing Systems and Networks, Arizona State University, Mesa, AZ(1制造系统与网络学院,亚利桑那州立大学,梅萨,AZ);Michael W. Hall School of Mechanical Engineering, Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS(2迈克尔·W·霍尔机械工程学院,密西西比州立大学,斯塔克维尔,MS)
TouchGuide: Inference-Time Steering of Visuomotor Policies via Touch Guidance
Shanghai Jiao Tong University(上海交通大学);Xense Robotics(Xense机器人公司);Sun Yat-sen University(中山大学);Oxford(牛津大学);Shanghai AI Laboratory(上海人工智能实验室);University of Science and Technology of China(中国科学技术大学);UCSD(加州大学圣地亚哥分校)
Arizona State University(亚利桑那州立大学);Iowa State University(爱荷华州立大学);George Washington University(乔治华盛顿大学);University of Michigan(密歇根大学)
Obstacle avoidance for small unmanned aircraft is vital for the safety of future urban air mobility (UAM) and Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) Traffic Management (UTM). There are many techniques for real-time robust drone guidance, but many of them solve in discretized airspace and control, which would require an additional path smoothing step to provide flexible commands for UAS. To provide a safe and efficient computational guidance of operations for unmanned aircraft, we explore the use of a deep reinforcement learning algorithm based on Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) to guide autonomous …