DOI: 10.3390/electronics15215019 ISSN: 2079-9292

BioEgo-HSG: A Memory-Augmented Hierarchical Skill-Graph Framework for Long-Horizon Biomedical Laboratory Automation from Egocentric Videos

Shiyi Zhang, Ding Nie, Pu Yuan, Qinyuan Wang, Weijie Chen, Jiaqi Zhou, Leiyu Wang, Mei Shuai

Learning procedural knowledge from human egocentric videos offers a source of demonstrations for long-horizon biomedical laboratory automation. Such workflows span functional zones, depend on persistent object and workspace states, and include recovery from procedural deviations. This paper formulates BioEgo-HSG as a memory-augmented hierarchical skill-graph framework for this setting. Laboratory Interaction-Centric Tokens combine hand–object relations, object-state cues, zone information, task progress, and confidence. A multi-scale temporal parser organizes demonstrations into procedure phases, functional subtasks, and embodiment-agnostic atomic skills. Episodic procedural memory carries object, zone, task-progress, and failure-recovery information across changes in visibility. A hierarchical skill graph represents temporal, prerequisite, dependency, transition, alternative, and recovery relations. A graph-constrained planner uses this representation and the memory state to select semantic skills and handle postcondition mismatches through a local execution interface. The contribution is the framework formulation and its procedural representation, memory mechanism, and skill-graph planning interface. The reported offline summaries and physical demonstrations provide preliminary feasibility observations within the studied laboratory setting.

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