TIC-VLA

TIC-VLA: A Think-in-Control Vision-Language-Action Model for Robot Navigation in Dynamic Environments

arXiv:2602.02459v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Robots in dynamic, human-centric environments must follow language instructions while maintaining real-time reactive control. Vision-language-action (VLA) models offer a promising framework, but they assume temporally aligned reasoning and control, despite semantic inference being inherently delayed relative to real-time action. We introduce Think-in-Control (TIC)-VLA, a latency-aware framework that explicitly models delayed semantic...