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Complex manipulation tasks can contain various execution branches of primitive skills in sequence or in parallel under different scenarios. Manual specifications of such branching conditions and associated skill parameters are not only…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Meng Guo , Mathias Bürger

Task and motion planning (TAMP) for multi-robot systems, which integrates discrete task planning with continuous motion planning, remains a challenging problem in robotics. Existing TAMP approaches often struggle to scale effectively for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Zhongqi Wei , Xusheng Luo , Changliu Liu

Past research into robotic planning with temporal logic specifications, notably Linear Temporal Logic (LTL), was largely based on a single formula for individual or groups of robots. But with increasing task complexity, LTL formulas…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Xusheng Luo , Shaojun Xu , Ruixuan Liu , Changliu Liu

The Hierarchical Task Network (HTN) formalism is used to express a wide variety of planning problems in terms of decompositions of tasks into subtaks. Many techniques have been proposed to solve such hierarchical planning problems. A…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-06-16 N. Cavrel , D. Pellier , H. Fiorino

The Hierarchical Task Network (HTN) formalism is used to express a wide variety of planning problems as task decompositions, and many techniques have been proposed to solve them. However, few works have been done on temporal HTN. This is…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Nicolas Cavrel , Damien Pellier , Humbert Fiorino

We describe a task and motion planning architecture for highly dynamic systems that combines a domain-independent sampling-based deliberative planning algorithm with a global reactive planner. We leverage the recent development of a…

Hierarchical Task Network (HTN) planning is showing its power in real-world planning. Although domain experts have partial hierarchical domain knowledge, it is time-consuming to specify all HTN methods, leaving them incomplete. On the other…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Zhanhao Xiao , Hai Wan , Hankui Hankz Zhuo , Andreas Herzig , Laurent Perrussel , Peilin Chen

Large language model-based web agents have shown strong potential in automating web interactions through advanced reasoning and instruction following. While retrieval-based memory derived from historical trajectories enables these agents to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Yunteng Tan , Zhi Gao , Xinxiao Wu

The ability of an agent to change its objectives in response to unexpected events is desirable in dynamic environments. In order to provide this capability to hierarchical task network (HTN) planning, we propose an extension of the paradigm…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-02-10 Weihang Yuan , Hector Munoz-Avila , Venkatsampath Raja Gogineni , Sravya Kondrakunta , Michael Cox , Lifang He

The Hierarchical Task Network ({\sf HTN}) formalism is very expressive and used to express a wide variety of planning problems. In contrast to the classical {\sf STRIPS} formalism in which only the action model needs to be specified, the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-06-15 M. Grand , H. Fiorino , D. Pellier

While autonomous vehicles still struggle to solve challenging situations during on-road driving, humans have long mastered the essence of driving with efficient, transferable, and adaptable driving capability. By mimicking humans' cognition…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Letian Wang , Yeping Hu , Liting Sun , Wei Zhan , Masayoshi Tomizuka , Changliu Liu

The authors present an overview of a hierarchical framework for coordinating task- and motion-level operations in multirobot systems. Their framework is based on the idea of using simple temporal networks to simultaneously reason about…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-04-03 Hang Ma , Wolfgang Hönig , Liron Cohen , Tansel Uras , Hong Xu , T. K. Satish Kumar , Nora Ayanian , Sven Koenig

Hierarchical Task Networks (HTN) planners generate plans using a decomposition process with extra domain knowledge to guide search towards a planning task. While domain experts develop HTN descriptions, they may repeatedly describe the same…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-07-04 Maurício Cecílio Magnaguagno , Felipe Meneguzzi , Lavindra de Silva

This project introduces a hierarchical planner integrating Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) constraints with natural language prompting for robot motion planning. The framework decomposes maps into regions, generates directed graphs, and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Jingzhan Ge , Zi-Hao Zhang , Sheng-En Huang

In this paper, we address the problem of generating preferred plans by combining the procedural control knowledge specified by Hierarchical Task Networks (HTNs) with rich qualitative user preferences. The outcome of our work is a language…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2009-09-04 Shirin Sohrabi , Sheila A. McIlraith

Large language models (LLMs) often struggle when performing agentic tasks without substantial tool support, prom-pt engineering, or fine tuning. Despite research showing that domain-dependent, procedural knowledge can dramatically increase…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Vincent Hsiao , Mark Roberts , Leslie Smith

In this paper we present an interface between a symbolic planner and a geometric task planner, which is different to a standard trajectory planner in that the former is able to perform geometric reasoning on abstract entities---tasks. We…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-07-08 Lavindra de Silva , Amit Kumar Pandey , Mamoun Gharbi , Rachid Alami

We present online learning of Hierarchical Task Network (HTN) methods in the context of integrated HTN planning and LLM-based chatbots. Methods indicate when and how to decompose tasks into subtasks. Our method learner is built on top of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Yuesheng Xu , Hector Munoz-Avila

Deep Multi-Task Learning (DMTL) has been widely studied in the machine learning community and applied to a broad range of real-world applications. Searching for the optimal knowledge sharing in DMTL is more challenging for sequential…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Michael X. Yang

Multi-robot task planning requires decomposing natural-language instructions into executable actions for heterogeneous robot teams. Conventional Planning Domain Definition Language (PDDL) planners provide rigorous guarantees but struggle to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Tomoya Kawabe , Rin Takano