Robot Control Stack: A Lean Ecosystem for Robot Learning at Scale
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| author | Jülg, Tobias Krack, Pierre Bien, Seongjin Blei, Yannik Gamal, Khaled Nakahara, Ken Hechtl, Johannes Calandra, Roberto Burgard, Wolfram Walter, Florian |
| author_facet | Jülg, Tobias Krack, Pierre Bien, Seongjin Blei, Yannik Gamal, Khaled Nakahara, Ken Hechtl, Johannes Calandra, Roberto Burgard, Wolfram Walter, Florian |
| contents | Vision-Language-Action models (VLAs) mark a major shift in robot learning. They replace specialized architectures and task-tailored components of expert policies with large-scale data collection and setup-specific fine-tuning. In this machine learning-focused workflow that is centered around models and scalable training, traditional robotics software frameworks become a bottleneck, while robot simulations offer only limited support for transitioning from and to real-world experiments. In this work, we close this gap by introducing Robot Control Stack (RCS), a lean ecosystem designed from the ground up to support research in robot learning with large-scale generalist policies. At its core, RCS features a modular and easily extensible layered architecture with a unified interface for simulated and physical robots, facilitating sim-to-real transfer. Despite its minimal footprint and dependencies, it offers a complete feature set, enabling both real-world experiments and large-scale training in simulation. Our contribution is twofold: First, we introduce the architecture of RCS and explain its design principles. Second, we evaluate its usability and performance along the development cycle of VLA and RL policies. Our experiments also provide an extensive evaluation of Octo, OpenVLA, and Pi Zero on multiple robots and shed light on how simulation data can improve real-world policy performance. Our code, datasets, weights, and videos are available at: https://robotcontrolstack.github.io/ |
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| spellingShingle | Robot Control Stack: A Lean Ecosystem for Robot Learning at Scale Jülg, Tobias Krack, Pierre Bien, Seongjin Blei, Yannik Gamal, Khaled Nakahara, Ken Hechtl, Johannes Calandra, Roberto Burgard, Wolfram Walter, Florian Robotics Machine Learning Vision-Language-Action models (VLAs) mark a major shift in robot learning. They replace specialized architectures and task-tailored components of expert policies with large-scale data collection and setup-specific fine-tuning. In this machine learning-focused workflow that is centered around models and scalable training, traditional robotics software frameworks become a bottleneck, while robot simulations offer only limited support for transitioning from and to real-world experiments. In this work, we close this gap by introducing Robot Control Stack (RCS), a lean ecosystem designed from the ground up to support research in robot learning with large-scale generalist policies. At its core, RCS features a modular and easily extensible layered architecture with a unified interface for simulated and physical robots, facilitating sim-to-real transfer. Despite its minimal footprint and dependencies, it offers a complete feature set, enabling both real-world experiments and large-scale training in simulation. Our contribution is twofold: First, we introduce the architecture of RCS and explain its design principles. Second, we evaluate its usability and performance along the development cycle of VLA and RL policies. Our experiments also provide an extensive evaluation of Octo, OpenVLA, and Pi Zero on multiple robots and shed light on how simulation data can improve real-world policy performance. Our code, datasets, weights, and videos are available at: https://robotcontrolstack.github.io/ |
| title | Robot Control Stack: A Lean Ecosystem for Robot Learning at Scale |
| topic | Robotics Machine Learning |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14932 |