arXiv AI By Jing Jiang, Yue Yang, Xinkai Jiang, Gedas Bertasius, Daniel J. Szafir, Rudolf Lioutikov

From Rollout to Reset: A Graph-Based Harness for Autonomous Long-Horizon Manipulation Evaluation

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The paper introduces HALTER, a graph-based system that automates the reset and evaluation of long-horizon robot manipulation tasks. HALTER constructs a spatial scene graph from point clouds and vision models, uses an LLM to score rollouts, plan resets, and verify success, all without labeled success images. In experiments on a Franka arm, HALTER restores scenes in 76% of episodes, improves skill completion estimation, and reduces operator time by 72% compared to manual reset.

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