AssemMate: Graph-Based LLM for Robotic Assembly Assistance

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Main Authors: Zheng, Qi, Zhang, Chaoran, Liang, Zijian, Lin, EnTe, Cui, Shubo, Xie, Qinghongbing, Xu, Zhaobo, Zeng, Long
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author Zheng, Qi
Zhang, Chaoran
Liang, Zijian
Lin, EnTe
Cui, Shubo
Xie, Qinghongbing
Xu, Zhaobo
Zeng, Long
author_facet Zheng, Qi
Zhang, Chaoran
Liang, Zijian
Lin, EnTe
Cui, Shubo
Xie, Qinghongbing
Xu, Zhaobo
Zeng, Long
contents Large Language Model (LLM)-based robotic assembly assistance has gained significant research attention. It requires the injection of domain-specific knowledge to guide the assembly process through natural language interaction with humans. Despite some progress, existing methods represent knowledge in the form of natural language text. Due to the long context and redundant content, they struggle to meet the robots' requirements for real-time and precise reasoning. In order to bridge this gap, we present AssemMate, which utilizes the graph\textemdash a concise and accurate form of knowledge representation\textemdash as input. This graph-based LLM enables knowledge graph question answering (KGQA), supporting human-robot interaction and assembly task planning for specific products. Beyond interactive QA, AssemMate also supports sensing stacked scenes and executing grasping to assist with assembly. Specifically, a self-supervised Graph Convolutional Network (GCN) encodes knowledge graph entities and relations into a latent space and aligns them with LLM's representation, enabling the LLM to understand graph information. In addition, a vision-enhanced strategy is employed to address stacked scenes in grasping. Through training and evaluation, AssemMate outperforms existing methods, achieving 6.4\% higher accuracy, 3 times faster inference, and 28 times shorter context length, while demonstrating strong generalization ability on random graphs. And our approach further demonstrates superiority through robotic grasping experiments in both simulated and real-world settings. More details can be found on the project page: https://github.com/cristina304/AssemMate.git
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spellingShingle AssemMate: Graph-Based LLM for Robotic Assembly Assistance
Zheng, Qi
Zhang, Chaoran
Liang, Zijian
Lin, EnTe
Cui, Shubo
Xie, Qinghongbing
Xu, Zhaobo
Zeng, Long
Robotics
Large Language Model (LLM)-based robotic assembly assistance has gained significant research attention. It requires the injection of domain-specific knowledge to guide the assembly process through natural language interaction with humans. Despite some progress, existing methods represent knowledge in the form of natural language text. Due to the long context and redundant content, they struggle to meet the robots' requirements for real-time and precise reasoning. In order to bridge this gap, we present AssemMate, which utilizes the graph\textemdash a concise and accurate form of knowledge representation\textemdash as input. This graph-based LLM enables knowledge graph question answering (KGQA), supporting human-robot interaction and assembly task planning for specific products. Beyond interactive QA, AssemMate also supports sensing stacked scenes and executing grasping to assist with assembly. Specifically, a self-supervised Graph Convolutional Network (GCN) encodes knowledge graph entities and relations into a latent space and aligns them with LLM's representation, enabling the LLM to understand graph information. In addition, a vision-enhanced strategy is employed to address stacked scenes in grasping. Through training and evaluation, AssemMate outperforms existing methods, achieving 6.4\% higher accuracy, 3 times faster inference, and 28 times shorter context length, while demonstrating strong generalization ability on random graphs. And our approach further demonstrates superiority through robotic grasping experiments in both simulated and real-world settings. More details can be found on the project page: https://github.com/cristina304/AssemMate.git
title AssemMate: Graph-Based LLM for Robotic Assembly Assistance
topic Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11617