Action Agent: Agentic Video Generation Meets Flow-Constrained Diffusion
arXiv cs.RO / 5/5/2026
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Key Points
- Action Agent proposes a two-stage framework that combines agentic navigation video generation with flow-constrained diffusion to control multi-embodiment robot navigation from language and images.
- In Stage I, an LLM orchestrates video diffusion model selection, iteratively validates and refines prompts, and builds cross-task memory to generate physically plausible first-person navigation videos, raising success rate from 35% to 86% across 50 tasks.
- In Stage II, FlowDiT (a Flow-Constrained Diffusion Transformer) converts goal videos plus language instructions into continuous velocity commands via action-space denoising diffusion, using DINOv2 features, learned optical flow for ego-motion, and CLIP embeddings for semantic stopping.
- The system is pretrained on RECON and fine-tuned on Unitree G1 humanoid data from Isaac Sim, with a single 43M-parameter checkpoint achieving 73.2% simulation navigation success and 64.7% task completion on real unseen indoor environments under open-loop execution while running at 40–47 Hz.
- Experiments across a humanoid robot, a drone, and a wheeled robot suggest that separating trajectory imagination from execution provides a scalable, embodiment-aware approach for language-guided navigation.
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