Target masks extend robot policies to ordered, long-horizon manipulation

MaskHarness-WAM repeatedly identifies target instances and verifies subtask completion, allowing a real robot to manipulate similar-looking objects in sequence.

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Zitai Huang · Taiyi Su · Jian Zhu · Jianjun Zhang · Chong Ma · Tianbin Liu · +3 more

Tongji University · AIRC, Midea Group

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Huang et al.

The authors built MaskHarness-WAM, a control harness for tasks in which a robot must manipulate multiple objects—potentially identical in appearance—in a prescribed order.

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From Tongji University and AIRC, Midea Group · Part of Live Software Adaptation, now 4 papers

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MaskHarness-WAM enables reliable sequential manipulation of identical objects by updating instance masks at each subtask transition.

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