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Brian Sheil

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Preprint Sep 2026

A Brain-inspired Hierarchical Framework for Zero-Shot Robot Task Reasoning and Execution

Robots that follow open-ended language instructions need to connect semantic intent to visual scene understanding, geometric feasibility, object states, and physical interaction conditions. End-to-end Vision-Language-Action policies have improved cross-task generalization, but they typically map visual and language inputs directly to robot actions, leaving limited explicit structure for long-horizon decomposition, physical verification, and recovery. We present \method, a zero-shot hierarchical framework functionally inspired by the division of roles in the human brain, comprising visual perception and state inference, language grounding and action-sequence generation from a shared atomic action library, cost-based plan selection, and real-robot execution and verification. The framework grounds commands in explicit object states, composes reusable atomic actions into task-conditioned sequences, ranks alternative sequences by execution cost, and verifies intermediate physical outcomes from refreshed observations. In the evaluation, \method{} completes 10/10 clean board trials, 10/10 pick-and-place trials, and 4/5 pyramid stacking trials for both the flat and irregular initial-layout conditions; the corresponding mean task progress is $99.03\%$, $100.00\%$, and $96.67\%$ respectively. Across all evaluated conditions, \method{} achieves higher success rates than ReKep, Dream2Flow, and $\pi_{0.5}$ benchmarks, demonstrating the effectiveness of combining explicit object-state reasoning, compositional atomic actions, cost-based plan selection, and closed-loop execution verification.

Guang-Ming Wang, Peng-Fei Ye, Qi-Zhen Ying et al. · 0 citations
Preprint Aug 2026

BendTwin: Robust Dense-to-Sparse Physical Reconstruction with Bending-Aware Differentiable Spring-Mass Models

Reconstructing objects with mechanical properties from video observations enables physically consistent dynamic prediction, benefiting robotics planning and interaction. Existing spring--mass based physical driven reconstruction approaches offer efficient and differentiable physical reconstruction, but they typically rely on axial springs alone. Such formulations oversimplify the underlying structural mechanics and can become mechanically under-constrained when the physical graph is coarsened, limiting their ability to preserve stable local deformation. We present BendTwin, a bending-aware differentiable spring--mass framework for video-based reconstruction and future prediction of deformable objects. BendTwin introduces bending stiffness and damping over local surface triplets, penalizing deviations from rest angles and regularizing higher-order deformation. These bending constraints improve mechanical stability while preserving the simplicity of spring--mass system. Experiments show that BendTwin consistently outperforms the axial-only PhysTwin baseline. Ablation studies further demonstrate that the bending constraints maintain system stability across different downsampling ratios and consistently improve upon the original PhysTwin formulation. Overall, BendTwin provides an effective approach for constructing mechanically faithful digital twins from sparse-view RGB-D videos.

Yixiong Jing, Qi Wang, Lin Chen et al. · 0 citations

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