arXiv:2602.09430cs.ROcs.AI2026-02被引 1

让机器人实验任务更连贯,通过智能衔接动作解决长序列执行失败问题。

AtomBridge: Agentic VLA Inference Plugin for Long-Horizon Tasks in Scientific Experiments

  • 在现有视觉语言动作模型上插件式添加过渡推理与动作生成能力。
  • 8步组合任务中全序列成功率提升10%~25%,原子任务成功率也提高。
  • 无需重新训练或额外演示,适合真实科研实验场景中的复杂任务执行。

机器人实验室在自主科学发现中发挥关键作用,可实现规模化、持续的实验执行。近期的视觉-语言-动作(VLA)模型为机器人实验室提供了良好基础。然而,科学实验通常包含由多个原子任务组成的长时序任务。现有VLA模型在重组和组合已知原子动作形成复合任务时可能失效,这源于技能链断层:前一技能的终态可能不在下一技能的有效初始状态分布内。为此,我们提出AtomBridge,一种用于科学实验长时序任务的代理式VLA推理插件。AtomBridge在推理阶段附加于已针对原子任务微调的VLA策略,保持其权重不变。在每个任务边界,它利用大语言模型进行状态过渡推理并生成机器人动作代码,插入中间过渡动作。该即插即用设计在无需额外微调或复合序列示范的情况下,缓解了由机器人状态不匹配引起的技能链断层问题。在模拟环境和真实实验环境中,AtomBridge显著提升了执行连续性与每步原子任务的成功率。在8步组合任务中,全序列成功率提升10%~25%。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Robotic laboratories play a critical role in autonomous scientific discovery by enabling scalable, continuous experimental execution. Recent vision-language-action (VLA) models offer a promising foundation for robotic laboratories. However, scientific experiments typically involve long-horizon tasks composed of multiple atomic tasks. Existing VLA models may fail to perform composed tasks formed by reordering and composing these known atomic actions. This limitation can arise from a skill-chaining gap caused by robot-state mismatch: the terminal robot state of one skill can fall outside the valid initial-state distribution of the next. To address this challenge, we propose AtomBridge, an Agentic VLA Inference Plugin for Long-Horizon Tasks in Scientific Experiments. AtomBridge attaches at inference time to a VLA policy already fine-tuned on atomic tasks, while keeping its weights fixed. At each task boundary, it uses LLM-based transition reasoning and robotic-action code generation to insert transitional actions between consecutive tasks. This plug-and-play design mitigates the skill-chaining gap caused by robot-state mismatch without additional VLA fine-tuning or demonstrations of composed long-horizon sequences. Across scientific manipulation sequences in simulation and a real-world experimental environment, AtomBridge improves execution continuity and per-step atomic-task success. On 8-step composed tasks, AtomBridge improves full-sequence success by 10%~25%.

机器人实验长序列任务VLA智能衔接

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