Thermo-VLA: 熱画像対応の視覚-言語-行動モデルとゲート付き残差変調によるロボットマニピュレーション
Thermo-VLA: A Thermal-Aware Vision-Language-Action Model with Gated Residual Modulation for Robotic Manipulation
熱画像を冷・熱属性に分解し言語条件付き残差変調でRGBトークンに注入するVLAモデルを提案し、双腕ロボットの実タスクで熱に依存する操作の成功率と汎化性能を向上させた。
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著者: Jingxuan Chen, Junshi Luo, Chencheng Dong, Xiaojian Nie, Tongge Huang, Qiang Huang
分類: cs.RO, cs.AI
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Recent Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have begun incorporating thermal sensing, but existing approaches typically treat thermal images as ordinary visual inputs, providing limited support for temperature-aware relational reasoning in manipulation. To address this limitation, we propose Thermo-VLA with a ThermoRes Encoder, which decomposes thermal images into cold and hot attribute representations and injects them into the RGB token through language-conditioned residual modulation, enabling temperature-driven target selection and continuous manipulation. We further construct six real-world robotic tasks on a dual-arm Unitree G1 platform, spanning basic grounding to relational reasoning. Experiments show that Thermo-VLA achieves an average success rate of 0.86 across four thermal-dependent tasks, outperforming a pi_0.5 baseline that directly incorporates RGB-thermal observations by 18 percentage points. Under unseen-object and scene variations, Thermo-VLA maintains an average success rate of 0.78, achieving the best generalisation performance among the compared methods. Beyond thermal sensing, we transfer the same residual modulation mechanism to colour attributes and observe consistent improvements in both simulation and real-robot experiments, indicating its potential to generalise beyond thermal attributes. Project website: https://j-x-chen.github.io/Thermo-VLA-web/