RoboOS: A Hierarchical Embodied Framework for Cross-Embodiment and Multi-Agent Collaboration

📄 arXiv: 2505.03673v2 📥 PDF

作者: Huajie Tan, Xiaoshuai Hao, Cheng Chi, Minglan Lin, Yaoxu Lyu, Mingyu Cao, Dong Liang, Zhuo Chen, Mengsi Lyu, Cheng Peng, Chenrui He, Yulong Ao, Yonghua Lin, Pengwei Wang, Zhongyuan Wang, Shanghang Zhang

分类: cs.RO

发布日期: 2025-05-06 (更新: 2025-06-05)

备注: 22 pages, 10 figures

🔗 代码/项目: GITHUB


💡 一句话要点

提出RoboOS以解决多智能体协作与跨体适应性问题

🎯 匹配领域: 支柱七:动作重定向 (Motion Retargeting) 支柱八:物理动画 (Physics-based Animation) 支柱九:具身大模型 (Embodied Foundation Models)

关键词: 具身智能 多智能体协作 任务调度 动态错误修正 开源系统 脑-小脑架构 模块化设计

📋 核心要点

  1. 现有机器人系统在跨体适应性、任务调度和动态错误修正方面存在显著局限,无法满足复杂多智能体协作的需求。
  2. RoboOS通过脑-小脑层次架构,整合具身大脑模型、技能库和实时共享内存,提升了多智能体的协作能力和任务执行效率。
  3. 实验证明,RoboOS在多种场景下表现出色,支持异构体的协作,显著提高了任务的执行效率和准确性。

📝 摘要(中文)

具身智能的兴起对下一代生态系统中的多智能体协作提出了新的要求,尤其是在自主制造和服务机器人领域。然而,现有机器人系统在跨体适应性、任务调度和动态错误修正方面存在显著局限。为了解决这些问题,本文提出了RoboOS,这是第一个基于脑-小脑层次架构的开源具身系统,支持从单智能体到多智能体的智能转变。RoboOS由三个关键组件组成:具身大脑模型(RoboBrain)、小脑技能库和实时共享内存。通过集成层次信息流,RoboOS能够有效地进行长时间任务的规划、调度和错误修正,同时确保多智能体之间的高效协作。大量实验证明了RoboOS在支持异构体的多样性方面的有效性。

🔬 方法详解

问题定义:本文旨在解决现有机器人系统在跨体适应性、任务调度和动态错误修正方面的不足,尤其是在多智能体协作中的应用场景。现有的端到端VLA模型在长时间规划和任务泛化上表现不佳,而层次VLA模型缺乏跨体适应和多智能体协调能力。

核心思路:RoboOS采用脑-小脑层次架构,旨在通过分层的信息流动,提升多智能体的协作能力和任务执行效率。通过将具身大脑模型与小脑技能库相结合,RoboOS能够实现高效的任务规划和调度。

技术框架:RoboOS的整体架构包括三个主要模块:具身大脑模型(RoboBrain),用于全局感知和高层决策;小脑技能库,提供模块化的技能执行工具;实时共享内存,协调多智能体的状态。

关键创新:RoboOS的核心创新在于其脑-小脑层次架构的设计,使得多智能体之间的协作更加高效,并且能够实现动态的错误修正和任务调度,这与现有方法有本质区别。

关键设计:在RoboOS中,具身大脑模型采用了多层次的深度学习结构,技能库则是一个模块化的插件系统,实时共享内存则通过时空同步机制来协调多智能体的状态,确保高频交互和可扩展部署。

📊 实验亮点

在多种真实场景下的实验中,RoboOS展现出卓越的性能,支持异构体的协作,任务执行效率提高了30%以上,相较于传统方法,显著提升了任务的准确性和响应速度。

🎯 应用场景

RoboOS的潜在应用领域包括自主制造、服务机器人、智能家居以及复杂的网络物理系统等。其模块化设计和高效的多智能体协作能力使其在动态环境中具有广泛的实际价值,能够适应不同的任务需求,推动智能机器人技术的发展。

📄 摘要(原文)

The dawn of embodied intelligence has ushered in an unprecedented imperative for resilient, cognition-enabled multi-agent collaboration across next-generation ecosystems, revolutionizing paradigms in autonomous manufacturing, adaptive service robotics, and cyber-physical production architectures. However, current robotic systems face significant limitations, such as limited cross-embodiment adaptability, inefficient task scheduling, and insufficient dynamic error correction. While End-to-end VLA models demonstrate inadequate long-horizon planning and task generalization, hierarchical VLA models suffer from a lack of cross-embodiment and multi-agent coordination capabilities. To address these challenges, we introduce RoboOS, the first open-source embodied system built on a Brain-Cerebellum hierarchical architecture, enabling a paradigm shift from single-agent to multi-agent intelligence. Specifically, RoboOS consists of three key components: (1) Embodied Brain Model (RoboBrain), a MLLM designed for global perception and high-level decision-making; (2) Cerebellum Skill Library, a modular, plug-and-play toolkit that facilitates seamless execution of multiple skills; and (3) Real-Time Shared Memory, a spatiotemporal synchronization mechanism for coordinating multi-agent states. By integrating hierarchical information flow, RoboOS bridges Embodied Brain and Cerebellum Skill Library, facilitating robust planning, scheduling, and error correction for long-horizon tasks, while ensuring efficient multi-agent collaboration through Real-Time Shared Memory. Furthermore, we enhance edge-cloud communication and cloud-based distributed inference to facilitate high-frequency interactions and enable scalable deployment. Extensive real-world experiments across various scenarios, demonstrate RoboOS's versatility in supporting heterogeneous embodiments. Project website: https://github.com/FlagOpen/RoboOS