From Reaction to Anticipation: Proactive Failure Recovery through Agentic Task Graph for Robotic Manipulation

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Hauptverfasser: Xu, Sheng, Jin, Ruixing, Zhou, Huayi, Yue, Bo, Qiao, Guanren, Tai, Yunxin, Deng, Yueci, Jia, Kui, Liu, Guiliang
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author Xu, Sheng
Jin, Ruixing
Zhou, Huayi
Yue, Bo
Qiao, Guanren
Tai, Yunxin
Deng, Yueci
Jia, Kui
Liu, Guiliang
author_facet Xu, Sheng
Jin, Ruixing
Zhou, Huayi
Yue, Bo
Qiao, Guanren
Tai, Yunxin
Deng, Yueci
Jia, Kui
Liu, Guiliang
contents Although robotic manipulation has made significant progress, reliable execution remains challenging because task failures are inevitable in dynamic and unstructured environments. To handle such failures, existing frameworks typically follow a stepwise detect-reason-recover pipeline, which often incurs high latency and limited robustness due to delayed reasoning and reactive planning. Inspired by the human capability to anticipate and proactively plan for potential failures, we introduce AgentChord, an agentic system that models a manipulation task as a directed task graph. Before execution, this graph is enriched with anticipatory recovery branches that specify context-aware corrective behaviors, enabling immediate and targeted responses when failures occur. Specifically, AgentChord operates through a choreography of specialized agents: a composer that structures the nominal task graph, an arranger that augments the graph with anticipatory recovery branches, and a conductor that compiles and coordinates executable transitions using low-latency monitors to detect deviations and trigger pre-compiled recoveries without re-planning. Empirical studies on diverse long-horizon bimanual manipulation tasks demonstrate that AgentChord substantially improves success rates and execution efficiency, advancing the reliability and autonomy of real-world robotic systems. The project page is available at: https://shengxu.net/AgentChord/.
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spellingShingle From Reaction to Anticipation: Proactive Failure Recovery through Agentic Task Graph for Robotic Manipulation
Xu, Sheng
Jin, Ruixing
Zhou, Huayi
Yue, Bo
Qiao, Guanren
Tai, Yunxin
Deng, Yueci
Jia, Kui
Liu, Guiliang
Robotics
Although robotic manipulation has made significant progress, reliable execution remains challenging because task failures are inevitable in dynamic and unstructured environments. To handle such failures, existing frameworks typically follow a stepwise detect-reason-recover pipeline, which often incurs high latency and limited robustness due to delayed reasoning and reactive planning. Inspired by the human capability to anticipate and proactively plan for potential failures, we introduce AgentChord, an agentic system that models a manipulation task as a directed task graph. Before execution, this graph is enriched with anticipatory recovery branches that specify context-aware corrective behaviors, enabling immediate and targeted responses when failures occur. Specifically, AgentChord operates through a choreography of specialized agents: a composer that structures the nominal task graph, an arranger that augments the graph with anticipatory recovery branches, and a conductor that compiles and coordinates executable transitions using low-latency monitors to detect deviations and trigger pre-compiled recoveries without re-planning. Empirical studies on diverse long-horizon bimanual manipulation tasks demonstrate that AgentChord substantially improves success rates and execution efficiency, advancing the reliability and autonomy of real-world robotic systems. The project page is available at: https://shengxu.net/AgentChord/.
title From Reaction to Anticipation: Proactive Failure Recovery through Agentic Task Graph for Robotic Manipulation
topic Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.11951