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Enabling robot teams to execute natural language commands requires translating high-level instructions into feasible, efficient multi-robot plans. While Large Language Models (LLMs) combined with Planning Domain Description Language (PDDL)…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Guangyao Shi , Yuwei Wu , Vijay Kumar , Gaurav S. Sukhatme

This paper investigates the online motion coordination problem for a group of mobile robots moving in a shared workspace. Based on the realistic assumptions that each robot is subject to both velocity and input constraints and can have only…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-04-23 Pian Yu , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

In this paper we present a method for automatically planning optimal paths for a group of robots that satisfy a common high level mission specification. Each robot's motion in the environment is modeled as a weighted transition system. The…

Robotics · Computer Science 2015-03-13 Alphan Ulusoy , Stephen L. Smith , Xu Chu Ding , Calin Belta , Daniela Rus

In this paper, we consider teams of robots with heterogeneous skills (e.g., sensing and manipulation) tasked with collaborative missions described by Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) formulas. These LTL-encoded tasks require robots to apply…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Samarth Kalluraya , Beichen Zhou , Yiannis Kantaros

Mobile and general-purpose robots increasingly support our everyday life, requiring dependable robotics control software. Creating such software mainly amounts to implementing their complex behaviors known as missions. Recognizing the need,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-01-09 Claudio Menghi , Christos Tsigkanos , Patrizio Pelliccione , Carlo Ghezzi , Thorsten Berger

We present a unified framework for multi-task locomotion and manipulation policy learning grounded in a contact-explicit representation. Instead of designing different policies for different tasks, our approach unifies the definition of a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Shafeef Omar , Majid Khadiv

In this paper, we present the design and implementation of a robust motion formation distributed control algorithm for a team of mobile robots. The primary task for the team is to form a geometric shape, which can be freely translated and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-09-21 Hector Garcia de Marina , Johan Siemonsma , Bayu Jayawardhana , Ming Cao

We address the path planning problem for a team of robots satisfying a complex high-level mission specification given in the form of an Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) formula. The state-of-the-art approach to this problem employs the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-05 Dhaval Gujarathi , Indranil Saha

We introduce a novel framework for automatic behavior tree (BT) construction in heterogeneous multi-robot systems, designed to address the challenges of adaptability and robustness in dynamic environments. Traditional robots are limited by…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Chaoran Wang , Jingyuan Sun , Yanhui Zhang , Mingyu Zhang , Changju Wu

In many multirobot applications, planning trajectories in a way to guarantee that the collective behavior of the robots satisfies a certain high-level specification is crucial. Motivated by this problem, we introduce counting temporal…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-11-01 Yunus Emre Sahin , Petter Nilsson , Necmiye Ozay

Symbolic motion planning for robots is the process of specifying and planning robot tasks in a discrete space, then carrying them out in a continuous space in a manner that preserves the discrete-level task specifications. Despite progress…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Yue Wang , Laura R. Humphrey , Zhanrui Liao , Huanfei Zheng

In this paper, we develop a distributed intermittent communication and task planning framework for mobile robot teams. The goal of the robots is to accomplish complex tasks, captured by local Linear Temporal Logic formulas, and share the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-06-26 Yiannis Kantaros , Meng Guo , Michael M. Zavlanos

This paper presents a novel approach to enhance autonomous robotic manipulation using the Large Language Model (LLM) for logical inference, converting high-level language commands into sequences of executable motion functions. The proposed…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Haokun Liu , Yaonan Zhu , Kenji Kato , Izumi Kondo , Tadayoshi Aoyama , Yasuhisa Hasegawa

This paper investigates the task assignment problem for multiple dispersed robots constrained by limited communication range. The robots are initially randomly distributed and need to visit several target locations while minimizing the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-02-16 Xiaoshan Bai , Weisheng Yan , Ming Cao , Jie Huang

This paper considers the problem of planning trajectories for a team of sensor-equipped robots to reduce uncertainty about a dynamical process. Optimizing the trade-off between information gain and energy cost (e.g., control effort,…

We present a control framework for achieving encirclement of a target moving in 3D using a multi-robot system. Three variations of a basic control strategy are proposed for different versions of the encirclement problem, and their…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-05-24 Antonio Franchi , Paolo Stegagno , Giuseppe Oriolo

This paper presents a motion planning and risk analysis framework for enhancing human-robot collaboration with a Multi-Rotor Aerial Vehicle. The proposed method employs Signal Temporal Logic to encode key mission objectives, including…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Giuseppe Silano , Amr Afifi , Martin Saska , Antonio Franchi

Signal Temporal Logic (STL) is a powerful specification language for describing complex temporal behaviors of continuous signals, making it well-suited for high-level robotic task descriptions. However, generating executable plans for STL…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Ruijia Liu , Ancheng Hou , Xiao Yu , Xiang Yin

Scalable multi-robot transition is essential for ubiquitous adoption of robots. As a step towards it, a computationally efficient decentralized algorithm for continuous-time trajectory optimization in multi-robot scenarios based upon model…

This paper proposes an online path planning and motion generation algorithm for heterogeneous robot teams performing target search in a real-world environment. Path selection for each robot is optimized using an information-theoretic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Minkyu Kim , Ryan Gupta , Luis Sentis