Vision-Language Procedural Reasoning for Context-Aware Reward Modeling of Robotic Endovascular Guidewire Navigation
This paper proposes a Vision-Language Procedural Reasoning (VL-PR) framework for autonomous guidewire navigation in robotic-assisted endovascular interventions. It integrates a multimodal large language model to interpret real-time visual observations for high-level navigation context inference and dynamically adjusts reward component importance. Experiments on a physical robotic platform demonstrate enhanced task reliability and efficiency over static-reward methods.
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Title:Vision-Language Procedural Reasoning for Context-Aware Reward Modeling of Robotic Endovascular Guidewire Navigation
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Abstract:Robotic-assisted endovascular interventions demand accurate, stable, and context-aware guidewire navigation in complex and patient-specific vascular anatomies. Despite recent advances in robotic precision and learning-based control, existing autonomous navigation methods remain limited by their reliance on static reward functions and the lack of explicit procedural reasoning regarding anatomical context and task progression. To address these challenges, this paper proposes a vision-language procedural reasoning (VL-PR) framework for autonomous guidewire navigation. The framework integrates a multimodal large language model (MLLM) as a procedural reasoning module that interprets real-time visual observations to infer high-level navigation contexts. Instead of generating low-level control commands, the inferred procedural insights enable context-aware reward adaptation by dynamically adjusting the importance of reward components across different navigation phases. This approach allows a single policy to resolve competing objectives and handle complex transitions while preserving a consistent global task goal. Experiments on a physical robotic platform across diverse vascular scenarios demonstrate enhanced task reliability and streamlined navigational efficiency, highlighting the advantages over static-reward methods and offering a scalable solution for complex and multi-task robotic endovascular procedures.
Comments: This paper has been accepted by IEEE/RSJ IROS 2026. 7 pages, 4 figures, 2 tables
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Robotics (cs.RO)
Cite as: arXiv:2606.30698 [cs.RO]
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https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2606.30698
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From: Tianliang Yao [view email] [v1] Mon, 29 Jun 2026 07:35:20 UTC (1,922 KB)
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