内在的ロボット報酬:VLA表現を再利用した自律評価と方策改善
Intrinsic Robot Rewarding: Reusing VLA Representations for Autonomous Evaluation and Policy Improvement
VLAモデルの視覚表現と成功デモを再利用し、追加の評価器なしでロボット自身の成果を評価して方策改善に役立てる報酬機構IRRを提案。
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著者: Tobias Schaffer, Mohab Elkhayat, Daniela Nicklas, Mustafa Almohamad, Elham Al-Fuqara
分類: cs.RO, cs.LG
原文アブストラクト
Vision-language-action (VLA) systems already bring together two valuable resources for robot learning: rich visual representations and demonstrations of successful task execution. Intrinsic Robot Rewarding (IRR) proposes to use these resources for a second, complementary purpose: evaluating the robot's own outcomes and providing feedback for policy improvement. Successful demonstration endpoints define task-specific references, and the policy's frozen visual encoder provides the feature space in which new outcomes are assessed. The core reward mechanism adds a reference bank and a scoring operation to the existing pipeline, without requiring a separate learned evaluator or an additional perception backbone. Our position is that this reuse offers a promising route to lower integration effort, efficient reward computation, and reduced recurring human outcome scoring. Building on established research in visual rewards and learning from experience, IRR brings these ideas into the robot's existing perception and demonstration pipeline. An operational COMAU Racer 3 demonstrator is available at technology readiness level 4 (TRL 4). This laboratory foundation supports the next research step: connecting internal outcome evaluation to physical policy improvement. We present the reward formulation, central research questions, and an evaluation methodology linking reward reliability to task success and supervision effort. The intended contribution is a reusable approach to learn and improve from the data and experience already available in industrial robot systems.