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Empowering Precise Embodied Agents with Executable Analytic Concepts as Semantic-Physical Blueprints

Sep 2026 · Proceedings of the Thirty-Fifth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence · 0 citations · 28 references

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GRACE is pro-posed, an agent framework that adopts Executable Analytic Concepts (EAC) as a core knowledge annotation paradigm for object understanding and supports automated concept discovery, offering a scalable and modular solution for high-precision embodied intelligence.

Abstract

A core challenge for embodied agents is the ``semantic-to-physical gap"—the difficulty of mapping symbolic reasoning to precise execution. While Vision-Language Models (VLMs) enhance agent task planning, they often fail in problem classes requiring accurate alignment between functional geometry and physical constraints, such as articulated object manipulation or precision assembly. To address these challenges, we propose GRACE, an agent framework that adopts Executable Analytic Concepts (EAC) as a core knowledge annotation paradigm for object understanding. Under this paradigm, the agent does not merely perceive objects as unstructured visual data; instead, it interprets and annotates them as ``Semantic-Physical Blueprints", which provide a structured cognitive representation that encodes geometric primitives, mechanical affordances, and manipulation constraints. Central to our framework is a policy scaffolding mechanism, which allows the agent to dynamically ground VLM-based insights into these instantiated blueprints. This enables the agent to model and resolve complex decision-making tasks involving parameterized object descriptions and constrained motion planning. Experimental results demonstrate that agents utilizing this paradigm achieve high robustness in complex manipulation tasks. Furthermore, we demonstrate that GRACE supports automated concept discovery, offering a scalable and modular solution for high-precision embodied intelligence.

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