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This research introduces SUN Programs, a framework that unifies model-based control with learned policies by encoding task semantics directly into RL rewards and MPC costs. Driven by large vision language systems, the resulting Kuafu system synthesizes robust manipulation policies from natural language descriptions, significantly outperforming baselines that rely on sparse rewards or manual demonstrations. The approach effectively bridges symbolic planning and data-driven execution, enabling high-success rates in both simulation and physical robotic environments without drifting from verified objectives.
SUN: Persistent Programs For Language-Grounded Control-to-Learning-to-Real Policies
arXiv:2608.31167v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Bridging model-based control and learned policies in long-horizon manipulation has harbored a silent disagreement: control executes specified objectives, learning amortizes that behavior into a reactive policy, yet existing protocols discard task semantics, leaving rewards hand-crafted and behavior drifting from what control verified.We introduce Semantically UNified (SUN) Programs, typed executables where geometric and contact relations are defined once and compiled into aligned Model Predictive Control (MPC) costs, satisfaction predicates, RL rewards, transition guards, and diagnostics. Our system, Kuafu, driven by large vision language systems, automatically synthesizes SUN Programs from language and scene semantics, screens feasibility via MPC, and retains semantics while training stage-conditioned policies. Across nine tasks, Kuafu achieves 82.03% macro-success, outperforming sparse-reward (35.67%) and Stage-BC (24.75%) baselines. At 8192-way scale, it generates 10.57x the successful trajectory time per hour of human teleoperation. With 500 trajectories per task, Kuafu data trains DP3 policies to 46.0% simulation success (vs. 22.4% for alternatives) and 34.7% on physical Franka and Kinova robots. These results establish that simulation-screened task semantics can effectively amortize control into robust policies, without demonstrations or manual dense rewards, unifying symbolic planning and data-driven execution.
Abstract:Bridging model-based control and learned policies in long-horizon manipulation has harbored a silent disagreement: control executes specified objectives, learning amortizes that behavior into a reactive policy, yet existing protocols discard task semantics, leaving rewards hand-crafted and behavior drifting from what control this http URL introduce Semantically UNified (SUN) Programs, typed executables where geometric and contact relations are defined once and compiled into aligned Model Predictive Control (MPC) costs, satisfaction predicates, RL rewards, transition guards, and diagnostics. Our system, Kuafu, driven by large vision language systems, automatically synthesizes SUN Programs from language and scene semantics, screens feasibility via MPC, and retains semantics while training stage-conditioned policies. Across nine tasks, Kuafu achieves 82.03% macro-success, outperforming sparse-reward (35.67%) and Stage-BC (24.75%) baselines. At 8192-way scale, it generates 10.57x the successful trajectory time per hour of human teleoperation. With 500 trajectories per task, Kuafu data trains DP3 policies to 46.0% simulation success (vs. 22.4% for alternatives) and 34.7% on physical Franka and Kinova robots. These results establish that simulation-screened task semantics can effectively amortize control into robust policies, without demonstrations or manual dense rewards, unifying symbolic planning and data-driven execution.
Robotics (cs.RO); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
arXiv:2608.31167 [cs.RO]
(or arXiv:2608.31167v1 [cs.RO] for this version)
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