arXiv:2610.36761v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Self-driving laboratories (SDLs) are laboratory systems that couple experimental planning, automated execution, and measurement feedback in a closed loop. Integrating flexible robot control with the typed application programming interfaces (APIs) and continuous measurements exposed by laboratory instruments remains an execution-interface challenge. To address this challenge, we propose a traceable framework comprising four components: LAM (Lab Action Model), OpenSDL, Safe-SDL, and L3-Bench. LAM is a proposed measurement-conditioned policy architecture that extends vision-language-action paradigms to generate both continuous robot trajectories and typed instrument API calls. OpenSDL is an execution substrate with an initial control implementation, designed to map role-level operations to heterogeneous devices, coordinate execution, and record timestamped causal events. The proposed Safe-SDL runtime gate combines pre-dispatch schema and resource checks with signal temporal logic monitoring during execution, including extended waiting periods. L3-Bench (Level-3 Laboratory Benchmark) specifies an episode-level evaluation protocol covering physical outcomes, timing, reproducibility, safety violations, and fault recovery. Together, these components provide an end-to-end design for linking hybrid action generation, monitored device execution, measurement feedback, and experimental evaluation, addressing coordination and traceability challenges in SDL workflows.
Abstract: Self-driving laboratories (SDLs) are laboratory systems that couple experimental planning, automated execution, and measurement feedback in a closed loop. Integrating flexible robot control with the typed application programming interfaces (APIs) and continuous measurements exposed by laboratory instruments remains an execution-interface challenge. To address this challenge, we propose a traceable framework comprising four components: LAM (Lab Action Model), OpenSDL, Safe-SDL, and L3-Bench. LAM is a proposed measurement-conditioned policy architecture that extends vision-language-action paradigms to generate both continuous robot trajectories and typed instrument API calls. OpenSDL is an execution substrate with an initial control implementation, designed to map role-level operations to heterogeneous devices, coordinate execution, and record timestamped causal events. The proposed Safe-SDL runtime gate combines pre-dispatch schema and resource checks with signal temporal logic monitoring during execution, including extended waiting periods. L3-Bench (Level-3 Laboratory Benchmark) specifies an episode-level evaluation protocol covering physical outcomes, timing, reproducibility, safety violations, and fault recovery. Together, these components provide an end-to-end design for linking hybrid action generation, monitored device execution, measurement feedback, and experimental evaluation, addressing coordination and traceability challenges in SDL workflows.
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