整合视觉-语言-动作与世界模型,推动机器人统一学习
Toward Unified Robot Learning: Bridging Representation, Vision-Language-Action, and World Models

- 从表征、决策、推理三方面构建机器人学习统一框架
- 指出当前系统因模块孤立导致泛化与长程规划能力弱
- 适合关注机器人通用智能与系统集成的研究者
为使机器人在真实环境中可靠运行,需具备环境感知、行动执行和行为后果推理能力。近年来,表征学习、视觉-语言-动作(VLA)模型及世界模型的发展显著提升了机器人学习系统的性能,使其能在更复杂环境中工作。然而,这些范式通常独立发展,导致系统碎片化,难以实现泛化、长时序推理与规划,且在非结构化环境中部署困难。本文提出一种统一视角,将现有方法沿三个互补维度组织:通过表征学习理解环境、通过VLA模型实现行动、通过世界模型进行推理。构建结构化分类体系,涵盖环境表征、策略学习与预测建模的关键设计选择,并总结各领域最新进展。不仅分类已有工作,还分析组件间交互机制,讨论共性局限,揭示向更集成系统演进的趋势。由此识别出关键挑战:不确定性量化、分布外泛化、跨本体迁移、长上下文理解与长程规划。这些挑战不仅源于单一组件的缺陷,更根植于感知、行动与推理间的割裂。基于此分析,展望未来方向:迈向物理一致、概率化的统一机器人学习,以建立具备稳定内部表征、支持长期交互决策的鲁棒系统。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
For robots to operate reliably in real-world environments, they need to perceive their surroundings, act, and reason about the consequences of those actions. Rapid progress in the domains of representation learning, VLA models, and world models has significantly enhanced the capabilities of robot learning systems, enabling robots to work in increasingly complex environments. However, these paradigms are typically developed in isolation, resulting in fragmented systems that struggle with generalization, long-horizon temporal reasoning and planning, and deployment in unstructured environments. In this survey, we present a unified perspective on robot learning by organizing the existing methods along three complementary axes: understanding through representation learning, acting through VLA models, and reasoning through world models. We introduce a structured taxonomy that captures key design choices in environment representation, policy learning, and predictive modeling, and summarize the recent progress in these domains. Beyond classifying the existing works, we analyze how these components interact, discuss common limitations, and highlight emerging trends towards more integrated systems. Through this lens, we identify the challenges in the domain of robot learning, including uncertainty quantification, out-of-distribution generalization, cross-embodiment transfer, long-context understanding, and long-horizon planning. We argue that these challenges arise not only from limitations within individual components but also from the lack of integration across perception, action, and reasoning. Building on this analysis, we outline future directions towards unified, physically grounded, and probabilistic robot learning to develop robust robotic systems that maintain consistent internal representations and support decision making over extended interactions in real-world environments.
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