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In this work, we present a novel robustness measure for continuous-time stochastic trajectories with respect to Signal Temporal Logic (STL) specifications. We show the soundness of the measure and develop a monitor for reasoning about…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Roland B. Ilyes , Qi Heng Ho , Morteza Lahijanian

This work develops a zero-shot mechanism, Comp-LTL, for an agent to satisfy a Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) specification given existing task primitives trained via reinforcement learning (RL). Autonomous robots often need to satisfy spatial…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Taylor Bergeron , Zachary Serlin , Kevin Leahy

In this paper, we investigate the problem of linear temporal logic (LTL) path planning for multi-agent systems, introducing the new concept of \emph{ordering constraints}. Specifically, we consider a generic objective function that is…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-09 Bowen Ye , Jianing Zhao , Shaoyuan Li , Xiang Yin

This paper addresses a motion planning problem to achieve spatio-temporal-logical tasks, expressed by syntactically co-safe linear temporal logic specifications (scLTL\next), in uncertain environments. Here, the uncertainty is modeled as…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Azizollah Taheri , Derya Aksaray

Several task and motion planning algorithms have been proposed recently to design paths for mobile robot teams with collaborative high-level missions specified using formal languages, such as Linear Temporal Logic (LTL). However, the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Samarth Kalluraya , George J. Pappas , Yiannis Kantaros

This paper considers the motion control and task planning problem of mobile robots under complex high-level tasks and human initiatives. The assigned task is specified as Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) formulas that consist of hard and soft…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-02-21 Meng Guo , Sofie Andersson , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

In this paper, we consider the robot motion (or task) planning problem under some given time bounded high level specifications. We use metric interval temporal logic (MITL), a member of the temporal logic family, to represent the task…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-03-30 Yuchen Zhou , Dipankar Maity , John S. Baras

In this paper, we study the problem of optimal multi-robot path planning (MPP) on graphs. We propose two multiflow based integer linear programming (ILP) models that computes minimum last arrival time and minimum total distance solutions…

Robotics · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Jingjin Yu , Steven M. LaValle

In this paper, we propose a model-free reinforcement learning method to synthesize control policies for motion planning problems with continuous states and actions. The robot is modelled as a labeled discrete-time Markov decision process…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Chuanzheng Wang , Yinan Li , Stephen L. Smith , Jun Liu

The objective of this study is to enable fast and safe manipulation tasks in home environments. Specifically, we aim to develop a system that can recognize its surroundings and identify target objects while in motion, enabling it to plan…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Keisuke Takeshita , Takahiro Yamazaki , Tomohiro Ono , Takashi Yamamoto

In this paper, we develop a Topological Approximate Dynamic Programming (TADP) method for planningin stochastic systems modeled as Markov Decision Processesto maximize the probability of satisfying high-level systemspecifications expressed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-08-04 Lening Li , Jie Fu

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

We present a method to generate a robot control strategy that maximizes the probability to accomplish a task. The task is given as a Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) formula over a set of properties that can be satisfied at the regions of a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-03-19 Xu Chu Ding , Stephen L. Smith , Calin Belta , Daniela Rus

During the last decade, sampling-based path planning algorithms, such as Probabilistic RoadMaps (PRM) and Rapidly-exploring Random Trees (RRT), have been shown to work well in practice and possess theoretical guarantees such as…

Robotics · Computer Science 2011-05-09 Sertac Karaman , Emilio Frazzoli

Sampling-based motion planning techniques have emerged as an efficient algorithmic paradigm for solving complex motion planning problems. These approaches use a set of probing samples to construct an implicit graph representation of the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-10-10 Brian Ichter , Edward Schmerling , Tsang-Wei Edward Lee , Aleksandra Faust

We develop an algorithm for the motion and task planning of a system comprised of multiple robots and unactuated objects under tasks expressed as Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) constraints. The robots and objects evolve subject to uncertain…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-26 Christos K. Verginis , Yiannis Kantaros , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

This paper concerns the verification of continuous-time polynomial spline trajectories against linear temporal logic specifications (LTL without 'next'). Each atomic proposition is assumed to represent a state space region described by a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-01-24 Daniel Selvaratnam , Michael Cantoni , J. M. Davoren , Iman Shames

This paper presents a new multi-layered algorithm for motion planning under motion and sensing uncertainties for Linear Temporal Logic specifications. We propose a technique to guide a sampling-based search tree in the combined task and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Qi Heng Ho , Zachary N. Sunberg , Morteza Lahijanian

This work presents an efficient method to solve a class of continuous-time, continuous-space stochastic optimal control problems of robot motion in a cluttered environment. The method builds upon a path integral representation of the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-03-10 Jung-Su Ha , Han-Lim Choi

Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) is widely used for defining conditions on the execution paths of dynamic systems. In the case of dynamic systems that allow for nondeterministic evolutions, one has to specify, along with an LTL formula f, which…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-09-30 M. Pistore , M. Y. Vardi