VLM-RLPGS: A Cognitive Framework Using Vision–Language Model and Reinforcement Learning for Push–Grasp Synergy
摘要
Intelligent robots or autonomous service robots represent some of the most proverbial landmarks of the Industry 4.0 era. Compared to traditional approaches, achieving this goal requires robots to perceive their environment, reason about it, and act with human-like cognitive capabilities. Therefore, a perception-based framework utilizing visual language model-reinforcement learning and incorporating synergistic push–grasp actions (VLM-RLPGS) for industrial manipulator has been proposed. In this paper, our approach goes as follows: (i) A precise description of the target framework and design objectives is established; (ii) evaluation of the autonomous execution mechanism for computing correct actions is conducted; and (iii) expert learning process, e.g., geometric analysis from input images, reward function design, and training with sample datasets, is discussed. To verify the feasibility of and efficiency in the proposed approach, several numerical simulations according to our framework design are conducted. Consequently, an experimental platform, consisting of a Universal Robot UR5, a two-finger gripper, a stereo camera, and sample objects, is then launched. In accordance with the results of both simulations and experiments, the effectiveness, applicability, and potential scalability of our approach to different areas can be precisely substantiated.