PhysiFlow: Physics-Aware Humanoid Whole-Body VLA via Multi-Brain Latent Flow Matching and Robust Tracking
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Abstract (arXiv)
In the domain of humanoid robot control, the fusion of Vision-Language-Action (VLA) with whole-body control is essential for semantically guided execution of real-world tasks. However, existing methods encounter challenges in terms of low VLA inference efficiency or an absence of effective semantic guidance for whole-body control, resulting in instability in dynamic limb-coordinated tasks. To bridge this gap, we present a semantic-motion intent guided, physics-aware multi-brain VLA framework for humanoid whole-body control. A series of experiments was conducted to evaluate the performance of the proposed framework. The experimental results demonstrated that the framework enabled reliable vision-language-guided full-body coordination for humanoid robots.
Key facts. Cited by 1 paper in the map (data through 7 Oct 2026). Placed in Tactile, force-aware and humanoid VLA, one of 13 directions in Vision-language-action models. Builds on 25 of its 29 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 5 Mar 2026.
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