Neuro-Symbolic VLM for Adaptive Impedance Control

Connecting a VLM's scene understanding to a low-level impedance controller

A system that connects a VLM’s scene understanding to a low-level impedance controller for a Franka Emika arm, validated and tested in NVIDIA Isaac Sim.

  • Material classification accuracy from 28% (pure visual) to 100%, by combining OpenCV geometric detection with VLM reasoning over scene graphs.
  • Aimed at safer human-robot interaction.