A Human-in-The-Loop Approach to Robot Action Replanning Through LLM Common-Sense Reasoning
To facilitate the wider adoption of robotics, accessible programming tools are required for non-experts. Observational learning enables intuitive human skills transfer through hands-on demonstrations, but relying solely on visual input can be inefficient in terms of scalability and failure mitigation, especially when based on a single demonstration. This paper presents a human-in-the-loop method for enhancing the robot execution plan, automatically generated based on a single RGB video, with natural language input to a Large Language Model (LLM). By including user-specified goals or critical task aspects and exploiting the LLM common-sense reasoning, the system adjusts the vision-based plan to prevent potential failures and adapts it based on the received instructions. Experiments demonstrated the framework intuitiveness and effectiveness in correcting vision-derived errors and adapting plans without requiring additional demonstrations. Moreover, interactive plan refinement and hallucination corrections promoted system robustness.
Authors
- Elena Merlo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-2205-0568)
- Marta Lagomarsino (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9121-1812)
- Arash Ajoudani (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1261-737X)
Institutions
- Italian Institute of Technology (IT)
Publication Details
- Journal
- IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
- Published
- 2025-09-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1109/lra.2025.3604702
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Robotics and Automated Systems
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 1.21