让机器人在未知环境中自主生成并验证假设,持续扩展知识。
Hypothesis-driven Model Expansion under Uncertainty for Open-World Robot Planning

- 用基础模型生成状态与动作的假设,结合规划验证
- 通过迭代执行反馈,自动修正错误假设并扩展知识
- 适合需要长期适应新环境的家用服务机器人
我们研究服务机器人在未知环境中进行开放世界规划的问题,此时机器人对物体和动作的知识不完整。传统封闭世界方法因预设知识库在面对意外情况时失效,难以实现自主知识扩展。本文提出一种开放世界规划框架,使机器人能自动生成、验证并更新关于抽象世界模型的假设。核心思想是显式维护不确定性感知的知识扩展,并将假设验证融入目标达成的规划中。框架利用基础模型生成初始假设,通过自动化规划生成同时兼顾假设验证与任务执行的动作序列。通过迭代执行与优化,机器人根据基础模型的验证反馈,修正错误假设并持续扩展知识。在仿真与真实环境中的大量实验表明,该框架实现了自主知识扩展,有效支持开放世界运行。结果表明,将机器人基础模型的不确定性感知知识扩展与规划结合,可显著提升家庭服务机器人的实际部署能力。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
We consider an open-world planning setting in which service robots must operate in unknown environments with incomplete knowledge of objects and actions. Traditional closed-world approaches with pre-programmed knowledge bases fail when robots encounter unexpected situations and tasks, posing a fundamental challenge for autonomous knowledge expansion in human environments. In this work, we propose an open-world planning framework that enables robots to automatically generate, verify, and update hypotheses about their abstract world models. Our key insight is to explicitly maintain uncertainty-aware knowledge expansion and integrate hypothesis verification into goal-reaching planning. The framework leverages foundation models to generate initial hypotheses over states and transitions, and applies automated planning to produce action sequences that jointly address hypothesis verification and task execution. Through iterative execution and refinement, the robot expands its knowledge by incorporating verification feedback from the foundation models when hypotheses prove incorrect. Extensive experiments in simulated and real-world environments demonstrate that our framework enables autonomous knowledge expansion and effective operation in open-world settings. These results indicate that integrating uncertainty-aware model expansion from robot foundation models with planning advances the practical deployment of household service robots.
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