cs.ROSep 30, 2026

DynaHarness: A Dynamic Physical Harness for Self-Evolving Robot Agents

Authors: Haoyuan Deng, Jiebin Liu, Tengxiao Zhang, Langning Yan, Hongye Cao, Ziwei Wang

Organizations: Nanyang Technological University · Nanjing University

Abstract

Pretrained robot policies provide useful action priors, but long-horizon manipulation still requires coordination between semantic reasoning and physical execution. Semantic reasoning operates at a coarser timescale than physical interaction, while episode-level failures provide limited guidance on which system component should be revised. We propose DynaHarness, a dynamic physical harness that couples semantic reasoning with physical governance through a shared execution contract and turns failure evidence into validated capability revisions. To be more specific, the slow brain proposes capabilities and symbolic arguments, while the fast brain grounds and monitors commands, refuses unresolved actions, substitutes capabilities, and requests replans when needed. The physical execution contract bounds each accepted command and records execution evidence across analytic skills, recovery skills, and the frozen VLA. Failure attribution localizes faults in these records and directs targeted revisions of reusable capabilities or execution mechanisms. Paired regression checks govern admission or rejection, closing the self-evolution loop. On LIBERO-Pro, DynaHarness achieves 75.2% on 800 newly sampled initial states, compared with 17.5% for the frozen policy. With the same capability library, full dynamic execution reaches 74.0% versus 63.9% under nominal one-step replanning. This demonstrates the value of DynaHarness as a dynamic physical harness that governs how existing capabilities are grounded, monitored, and coordinated during execution. Our project page is at https://denghaoyuan123.github.io/Dynaharness_page/.

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