WestWorld: A Knowledge-Encoded Scalable Trajectory World Model for Diverse Robotic Systems
Yuchen Wang, Jiangtao Kong, Sizhe Wei, Xiaochang Li, Haohong Lin, Hongjue Zhao, Tianyi Zhou, Lu Gan, Huajie Shao
Abstract
Trajectory world models play a crucial role in robotic dynamics learning, planning, and control. While recent works have explored trajectory world models for diverse robotic systems, they struggle to scale to a large number of distinct system dynamics and overlook domain knowledge of physical structures. To address these limitations, we introduce WestWorld, a knoWledge-Encoded Scalable Trajectory World model for diverse robotic systems. To tackle the scalability challenge, we propose a novel system-aware Mixture-of-Experts (Sys-MoE) that dynamically combines and routes specialized experts for different robotic systems via a learnable system embedding. To further enhance zero-shot generalization, we incorporate domain knowledge of robot physical structures by introducing a structural embedding that aligns trajectory representations with morphological information. After pretraining on 89 complex environments spanning diverse morphologies across both simulation and real-world settings, WestWorld achieves significant improvements over competitive baselines in zero-and few-shot trajectory prediction. Additionally, it shows strong scalability across a wide range of robotic environments and significantly improves performance on downstream model-based control for different robots. Finally, we deploy our model on a real-world Unitree Go1, where it demonstrates stable locomotion performance. The code is available at https: //github.com/511205787/WestWorld .
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