MAVP (Map-Aware Visuomotor Policies) is a framework that enhances mobile manipulation by predicting explicit base-pose targets and tracking them with localisation feedback. It reconstructs a static map from teleoperated demonstrations, expressing base trajectories in a shared map frame to provide consistent spatial supervision. During execution, the policy uses RGB observations, joint states, and the robot’s current map-frame base pose to jointly predict target base poses, arm actions, and gripper actions, while a low‑level controller corrects deviations using feedforward motion and pose error feedback. Pose‑noise augmentation during training further improves robustness, and MAVP outperforms unanchored velocity control across six real‑world tasks and three policy families.
arXiv:2609.39388v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Mobile manipulation requires precise navigation to a manipulation-ready pose followed by reliable object interaction. These two stages differ in acti...
Action-conditioned latent world models predict future visual representations, enabling zero-shot goal-conditioned robot planning and control. However, their predictions for fine-grained spatial and ro...
arXiv:2609.10506v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Action-conditioned latent world models predict future visual representations, enabling zero-shot goal-conditioned robot planning and control. However...
arXiv:2606. 10025v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present GHOST, a framework for learning visuomotor manipulation policies that generalize beyond the training distribution.
arXiv:2608. 20114v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Mobile manipulation requires a robot to predict how locomotion and arm motion jointly alter future observations and control.
FlowCorrect is a modular interactive imitation learning method that allows real‑time adaptation of generative flow‑matching manipulation policies using sparse, relative human corrections. During task execution, a human provides brief corrective pose nudges through a lightweight VR interface, and FlowCorrect locally adapts the policy without retraining the backbone, maintaining performance on previously learned scenarios. Experiments on a real‑world robot across four tabletop tasks show that, with a low correction budget, FlowCorrect achieves an 80% success rate on previously failed cases while preserving performance on solved scenarios.
arXiv:2609.38059v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Real-world robot learning is constrained by the cost of collecting experience and evaluating candidate behaviors. Video generation models offer a sca...
arXiv:2609.16864v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) models have achieved impressive performance in quasi-static manipulation, but struggle in dynamic manipulation tasks bec...
HIL-UMI is a policy-guided Universal Manipulation Interface that enables robot‑free, human‑in‑the‑loop post‑training of vision‑language‑action models. By querying the current policy during handheld demonstrations and using an Energy Score to detect out‑of‑distribution states, it selectively collects new data and refines a progress‑based advantage estimator. The updated estimator then drives advantage‑conditioned behavioral cloning, improving performance on long‑horizon and precise manipulation tasks while reducing per‑frame collection time compared to HG‑DAgger.
arXiv:2608.22296v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Quadruped mobile manipulation requires two tightly coupled capabilities: reaching manipulation-ready configurations and maintaining stable contact th...
Generalizable robot manipulation requires policies that can anticipate how visual scenes evolve while executing language instructions. While recent Vision-Language-Action models benefit from large-scale pretraining, their predominantly static pretraining objectives provide limited supervision for physical dynamics and temporal causality, leaving control-relevant knowledge to be learned from downstream robot demonstrations.
arXiv:2606. 10614v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Robotic foundation models pre-trained on human demonstration videos have shown promise, but a significant embodiment gap remains when the resulting policies are deployed on real robots.