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Main Authors: Yan, Yuxiang, Zhou, Zhiyuan, Gao, Xin, Li, Guanghao, Li, Shenglin, Chen, Jiaqi, Pu, Qunyan, Pu, Jian
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.25138
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author Yan, Yuxiang
Zhou, Zhiyuan
Gao, Xin
Li, Guanghao
Li, Shenglin
Chen, Jiaqi
Pu, Qunyan
Pu, Jian
author_facet Yan, Yuxiang
Zhou, Zhiyuan
Gao, Xin
Li, Guanghao
Li, Shenglin
Chen, Jiaqi
Pu, Qunyan
Pu, Jian
contents Manipulation in cluttered environments is challenging due to spatial dependencies among objects, where an improper manipulation order can cause collisions or blocked access. Existing approaches often overlook these spatial relationships, limiting their flexibility and scalability. To address these limitations, we propose OrderMind, a unified spatial-aware manipulation ordering framework that directly learns object manipulation priorities based on spatial context. Our architecture integrates a spatial context encoder with a temporal priority structuring module. We construct a spatial graph using k-Nearest Neighbors to aggregate geometric information from the local layout and encode both object-object and object-manipulator interactions to support accurate manipulation ordering in real-time. To generate physically and semantically plausible supervision signals, we introduce a spatial prior labeling method that guides a vision-language model to produce reasonable manipulation orders for distillation. We evaluate OrderMind on our Manipulation Ordering Benchmark, comprising 163,222 samples of varying difficulty. Extensive experiments in both simulation and real-world environments demonstrate that our method significantly outperforms prior approaches in effectiveness and efficiency, enabling robust manipulation in cluttered scenes.
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spellingShingle Learning Spatial-Aware Manipulation Ordering
Yan, Yuxiang
Zhou, Zhiyuan
Gao, Xin
Li, Guanghao
Li, Shenglin
Chen, Jiaqi
Pu, Qunyan
Pu, Jian
Robotics
Manipulation in cluttered environments is challenging due to spatial dependencies among objects, where an improper manipulation order can cause collisions or blocked access. Existing approaches often overlook these spatial relationships, limiting their flexibility and scalability. To address these limitations, we propose OrderMind, a unified spatial-aware manipulation ordering framework that directly learns object manipulation priorities based on spatial context. Our architecture integrates a spatial context encoder with a temporal priority structuring module. We construct a spatial graph using k-Nearest Neighbors to aggregate geometric information from the local layout and encode both object-object and object-manipulator interactions to support accurate manipulation ordering in real-time. To generate physically and semantically plausible supervision signals, we introduce a spatial prior labeling method that guides a vision-language model to produce reasonable manipulation orders for distillation. We evaluate OrderMind on our Manipulation Ordering Benchmark, comprising 163,222 samples of varying difficulty. Extensive experiments in both simulation and real-world environments demonstrate that our method significantly outperforms prior approaches in effectiveness and efficiency, enabling robust manipulation in cluttered scenes.
title Learning Spatial-Aware Manipulation Ordering
topic Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.25138