CLIPS is a rule-based programming language for building knowledge-driven applications, well suited for the complex task of coordinating autonomous robots. Inspired by the CLIPS-Executive originally developed for the lesser known Fawkes robotics framework, we present an Integration of CLIPS into the ROS ecosystem. Additionally, we show the flexibility of CLIPS by describing a PDDL-based planning framework integration.
@article{arxiv.2512.12722,
title = {Making Robots Play by the Rules: The ROS 2 CLIPS-Executive},
author = {Tarik Viehmann and Daniel Swoboda and Samridhi Kalra and Himanshu Grover and Gerhard Lakemeyer},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.12722},
year = {2025}
}