2025/12/12 by Chen, Suchang, Guo, Daqiang
Computer Science · Engineering · Psychology · #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Multimodal Machine Learning Applications #Robot Manipulation and Learning #Robotics (cs.RO) #Social Robot Interaction and HRI
paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2512.11275
openalex publication_date 2025/12/12 · openalex created_date 2025/12/16 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Existing pipelines for vision-language models (VLMs) in robotic manipulation prioritize broad semantic generalization from images and language, but typically omit execution-critical parameters required for contact-rich actions in manufacturing cells. We formalize an object-centric manipulation-logic schema, serialized as an eight-field tuple τ, which exposes object, interface, trajectory, tolerance, and force/impedance information as a first-class knowledge signal between human operators, VLM-based assistants, and robot controllers. We instantiate τ and a small knowledge base (KB) on a 3D-printer spool-removal task in a collaborative cell, and analyze τ-conditioned VLM planning using plan-quality metrics adapted from recent VLM/LLM planning benchmarks, while demonstrating how the same schema supports taxonomy-tagged data augmentation at training time and logic-aware retrieval-augmented prompting at test time as a building block for assistant systems in smart manufacturing enterprises.