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We present a case study of artificial intelligence techniques applied to the control of production printing equipment. Like many other real-world applications, this complex domain requires high-speed autonomous decision-making and robust…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-01-17 Wheeler Ruml , Minh Binh Do , Rong Zhou , Markus P. J. Fromherz

In task and motion planning (TAMP), the ambiguity and underdetermination of abstract descriptions used by task planning methods make it difficult to characterize physical constraints needed to successfully execute a task. The usual approach…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Alejandro Agostini , Justus Piater

The goal of Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) is to find a set of paths for a fleet of agents moving in a shared environment such that the agents reach their goals without colliding with each other. In practice, some of the robots executing…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-09-15 David Zahrádka , Denisa Mužíková , David Woller , Miroslav Kulich , Jiří Švancara , Roman Barták

Multi-agent path finding (MAPF) in large networks is computationally challenging. An approach for MAPF is prioritized planning (PP), in which agents plan sequentially according to their priority. Albeit a computationally efficient approach…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Patrick Scheffe , Julius Kahle , Bassam Alrifaee

Effective planning of long-horizon deformable object manipulation requires suitable abstractions at both the spatial and temporal levels. Previous methods typically either focus on short-horizon tasks or make strong assumptions that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-26 Xingyu Lin , Carl Qi , Yunchu Zhang , Zhiao Huang , Katerina Fragkiadaki , Yunzhu Li , Chuang Gan , David Held

Sherpa is a hyperparameter optimization library for machine learning models. It is specifically designed for problems with computationally expensive, iterative function evaluations, such as the hyperparameter tuning of deep neural networks.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-11 Lars Hertel , Julian Collado , Peter Sadowski , Jordan Ott , Pierre Baldi

While there has been a surge of interest in automated scientific discovery (ASD), especially with the emergence of LLMs, it remains challenging for tools to generate hypotheses that are both testable and grounded in the scientific…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Rosni Vasu , Peter Jansen , Pao Siangliulue , Cristina Sarasua , Abraham Bernstein , Peter Clark , Bhavana Dalvi Mishra

Sampling-based algorithms are widely used for motion planning in high-dimensional configuration spaces. However, due to low sampling efficiency, their performance often diminishes in complex configuration spaces with narrow corridors.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Lu Huang , Lingxiao Meng , Jiankun Wang , Xingjian Jing

Long-horizon task and motion planning (TAMP) is notoriously difficult to solve, let alone optimally, due to the tight coupling between the interleaved (discrete) task and (continuous) motion planning phases, where each phase on its own is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Kai Gao , Zihe Ye , Duo Zhang , Baichuan Huang , Jingjin Yu

Task and Motion Planning has made great progress in solving hard sequential manipulation problems. However, a gap between such planning formulations and control methods for reactive execution remains. In this paper we propose a model…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-23 Marc Toussaint , Jason Harris , Jung-Su Ha , Danny Driess , Wolfgang Hönig

Autonomous agents powered by large language models (LLMs) have shown impressive capabilities in tool manipulation for complex task-solving. However, existing paradigms such as ReAct rely on sequential reasoning and execution, failing to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Jiaqi Wu , Qinlao Zhao , Zefeng Chen , Kai Qin , Yifei Zhao , Xueqian Wang , Yuhang Yao

Many operational systems collect high-dimensional timeseries data about users/systems on key performance metrics. For instance, ISPs, content distribution networks, and video delivery services collect quality of experience metrics for user…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Harshavardhan Kamarthi , Harshil Shah , Henry Milner , Sayan Sinha , Yan Li , B. Aditya Prakash , Vyas Sekar

Advances in bio-technology have made available massive amounts of functional, structural and genomic data for many biological sequences. This increased availability of heterogeneous biological data has resulted in biological applications…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2013-02-26 Srikrishnan Divakaran , Arpit Mithal , Namit Jain

We introduce Reactive Action and Motion Planner (RAMP), which combines the strengths of sampling-based and reactive approaches for motion planning. In essence, RAMP is a hierarchical approach where a novel variant of a Model Predictive Path…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Vasileios Vasilopoulos , Suveer Garg , Pedro Piacenza , Jinwook Huh , Volkan Isler

Integrated task and motion planning (TAMP) has proven to be a valuable approach to generalizable long-horizon robotic manipulation and navigation problems. However, the typical TAMP problem formulation assumes full observability and…

We formulate the Resource-Constrained Project Scheduling Problem (RCPSP) as optimal search over the reachability graph of a Timed Transition Petri Net with Resources, using relative-delay tokens so that scheduling decisions correspond to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Ido Lublin , Dor Atzmon , Izack Cohen

A quadratic assignment problem (QAP) is a combinatorial optimization problem that belongs to the class of NP-hard ones. So, it is difficult to solve in the polynomial time even for small instances. Research on the QAP has thus focused on…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-30 Zohreh Raziei , Reza Tavakkoli-Moghaddam , Siavash Tabrizian

Although the use of metric fluents is fundamental to many practical planning problems, the study of heuristics to support fully automated planners working with these fluents remains relatively unexplored. The most widely used heuristic is…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-02-05 Amanda Jane Coles , Andrew Ian Coles , Maria Fox , Derek Long

Qualitative timeline-based planning models domains as sets of independent, but interacting, components whose behaviors over time, the timelines, are governed by sets of qualitative temporal constraints (ordering relations), called…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Renato Acampora , Dario Della Monica , Luca Geatti , Nicola Gigante , Angelo Montanari , Pietro Sala

Data mining, particularly the analysis of multivariate time series data, plays a crucial role in extracting insights from complex systems and supporting informed decision-making across diverse domains. However, assessing the similarity of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Franck Tonle , Henri Tonnang , Milliam Ndadji , Maurice Tchendji , Armand Nzeukou , Kennedy Senagi , Saliou Niassy