H-WM: Robotic Task and Motion Planning Guided by Hierarchical World Model

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Hauptverfasser: Huang, Jinbang, Chen, Wenyuan, Li, Zhiyuan, Pang, Oscar, Hu, Xiao, Zhang, Lingfeng, Hu, Yuanzhao, Zhang, Zhanguang, Coates, Mark, Cao, Tongtong, Quan, Xingyue, Zhang, Yingxue
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author Huang, Jinbang
Chen, Wenyuan
Li, Zhiyuan
Pang, Oscar
Hu, Xiao
Zhang, Lingfeng
Hu, Yuanzhao
Zhang, Zhanguang
Coates, Mark
Cao, Tongtong
Quan, Xingyue
Zhang, Yingxue
author_facet Huang, Jinbang
Chen, Wenyuan
Li, Zhiyuan
Pang, Oscar
Hu, Xiao
Zhang, Lingfeng
Hu, Yuanzhao
Zhang, Zhanguang
Coates, Mark
Cao, Tongtong
Quan, Xingyue
Zhang, Yingxue
contents World models are becoming central to robotic planning and control as they enable prediction of future state transitions. Existing approaches often emphasize video generation or natural-language prediction, which are difficult to ground in robot actions and suffer from compounding errors over long horizons. Classic task and motion planning models world transitions in logical space, enabling robot-executable and robust long-horizon reasoning. However, they typically operate independently of visual perception, preventing synchronized symbolic and visual state prediction. We propose a Hierarchical World Model (H-WM) that jointly predicts logical and visual state transitions within a unified framework. H-WM combines a high-level logical world model with a low-level visual world model, integrating the long-horizon robustness of symbolic reasoning with visual grounding. The hierarchical outputs provide stable intermediate guidance for long-horizon tasks, mitigating error accumulation and enabling robust execution across extended task sequences. Experiments across multiple vision-language-action (VLA) control policies demonstrate the effectiveness and generality of H-WM's guidance.
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spellingShingle H-WM: Robotic Task and Motion Planning Guided by Hierarchical World Model
Huang, Jinbang
Chen, Wenyuan
Li, Zhiyuan
Pang, Oscar
Hu, Xiao
Zhang, Lingfeng
Hu, Yuanzhao
Zhang, Zhanguang
Coates, Mark
Cao, Tongtong
Quan, Xingyue
Zhang, Yingxue
Robotics
World models are becoming central to robotic planning and control as they enable prediction of future state transitions. Existing approaches often emphasize video generation or natural-language prediction, which are difficult to ground in robot actions and suffer from compounding errors over long horizons. Classic task and motion planning models world transitions in logical space, enabling robot-executable and robust long-horizon reasoning. However, they typically operate independently of visual perception, preventing synchronized symbolic and visual state prediction. We propose a Hierarchical World Model (H-WM) that jointly predicts logical and visual state transitions within a unified framework. H-WM combines a high-level logical world model with a low-level visual world model, integrating the long-horizon robustness of symbolic reasoning with visual grounding. The hierarchical outputs provide stable intermediate guidance for long-horizon tasks, mitigating error accumulation and enabling robust execution across extended task sequences. Experiments across multiple vision-language-action (VLA) control policies demonstrate the effectiveness and generality of H-WM's guidance.
title H-WM: Robotic Task and Motion Planning Guided by Hierarchical World Model
topic Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.11291