Embodied Tree of Thoughts: Deliberate Manipulation Planning with Embodied World Model

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Autori principali: Xu, Wenjiang, Wang, Cindy, Fang, Rui, Zhang, Mingkang, Li, Lusong, Xu, Jing, Gu, Jiayuan, Zeng, Zecui, Chen, Rui
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Pubblicazione: 2025
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author Xu, Wenjiang
Wang, Cindy
Fang, Rui
Zhang, Mingkang
Li, Lusong
Xu, Jing
Gu, Jiayuan
Zeng, Zecui
Chen, Rui
author_facet Xu, Wenjiang
Wang, Cindy
Fang, Rui
Zhang, Mingkang
Li, Lusong
Xu, Jing
Gu, Jiayuan
Zeng, Zecui
Chen, Rui
contents World models have emerged as a pivotal component in robot manipulation planning, enabling agents to predict future environmental states and reason about the consequences of actions before execution. While video-generation models are increasingly adopted, they often lack rigorous physical grounding, leading to hallucinations and a failure to maintain consistency in long-horizon physical constraints. To address these limitations, we propose Embodied Tree of Thoughts (EToT), a novel Real2Sim2Real planning framework that leverages a physics-based interactive digital twin as an embodied world model. EToT formulates manipulation planning as a tree search expanded through two synergistic mechanisms: (1) Priori Branching, which generates diverse candidate execution paths based on semantic and spatial analysis; and (2) Reflective Branching, which utilizes VLMs to diagnose execution failures within the simulator and iteratively refine the planning tree with corrective actions. By grounding high-level reasoning in a physics simulator, our framework ensures that generated plans adhere to rigid-body dynamics and collision constraints. We validate EToT on a suite of short- and long-horizon manipulation tasks, where it consistently outperforms baselines by effectively predicting physical dynamics and adapting to potential failures. Website at https://embodied-tree-of-thoughts.github.io .
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spellingShingle Embodied Tree of Thoughts: Deliberate Manipulation Planning with Embodied World Model
Xu, Wenjiang
Wang, Cindy
Fang, Rui
Zhang, Mingkang
Li, Lusong
Xu, Jing
Gu, Jiayuan
Zeng, Zecui
Chen, Rui
Robotics
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
World models have emerged as a pivotal component in robot manipulation planning, enabling agents to predict future environmental states and reason about the consequences of actions before execution. While video-generation models are increasingly adopted, they often lack rigorous physical grounding, leading to hallucinations and a failure to maintain consistency in long-horizon physical constraints. To address these limitations, we propose Embodied Tree of Thoughts (EToT), a novel Real2Sim2Real planning framework that leverages a physics-based interactive digital twin as an embodied world model. EToT formulates manipulation planning as a tree search expanded through two synergistic mechanisms: (1) Priori Branching, which generates diverse candidate execution paths based on semantic and spatial analysis; and (2) Reflective Branching, which utilizes VLMs to diagnose execution failures within the simulator and iteratively refine the planning tree with corrective actions. By grounding high-level reasoning in a physics simulator, our framework ensures that generated plans adhere to rigid-body dynamics and collision constraints. We validate EToT on a suite of short- and long-horizon manipulation tasks, where it consistently outperforms baselines by effectively predicting physical dynamics and adapting to potential failures. Website at https://embodied-tree-of-thoughts.github.io .
title Embodied Tree of Thoughts: Deliberate Manipulation Planning with Embodied World Model
topic Robotics
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.08188