SkyNet: An Extensible Edge-Cloud Collaborative Framework for Robots in Long-Horizon Tasks
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Abstract
Large language models (LLMs) have shown promise in empowering robotics, but their widespread real-world application remains challenging due to two main issues: (1) existing research is "out-of-the-box", struggling to generalize to new robots and tasks, especially long-horizon tasks, and (2) deploying more general and powerful LLMs exceeds the capabilities of commodity hardware. To address these challenges, we propose the edge-cloud collaborative framework, i.e., SkyNet. We deploy LLMs in the cloud to create initial plans, select executable skills from a predefined library, and send them to the edge-based robot. The robot integrates multiple modules to form a policy network to complete the skills and update the feedback history. Based on the feedback history, the cloud LLMs determine whether to replan. The edge-cloud collaborative approach alleviates the pressure of deploying LLMs on commodity hardware, while the modular design enables easy extension to different tasks or robots without reconfiguring everything. To address the lack of standardized real-world experimental setups, we set up two easily replicable long-horizon tasks on a mobile robot equipped with commodity hardware, analyze the performance of various modules, and demonstrated the effectiveness of SkyNet.
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.007 | 0.002 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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