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Task and motion planning (TAMP) frameworks address long and complex planning problems by integrating high-level task planners with low-level motion planners. However, existing TAMP methods rely heavily on the manual design of planning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Jinbang Huang , Allen Tao , Rozilyn Marco , Miroslav Bogdanovic , Jonathan Kelly , Florian Shkurti

Robots need task planning algorithms to sequence actions toward accomplishing goals that are impossible through individual actions. Off-the-shelf task planners can be used by intelligent robotics practitioners to solve a variety of planning…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-02-27 Yuqian Jiang , Shiqi Zhang , Piyush Khandelwal , Peter Stone

Task And Motion Planning (TAMP) is the problem of finding a solution to an automated planning problem that includes discrete actions executable by low-level continuous motions. This field is gaining increasing interest within the robotics…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Elisa Tosello , Alessandro Valentini , Andrea Micheli

General-purpose robots require diverse repertoires of behaviors to complete challenging tasks in real-world unstructured environments. To address this issue, goal-conditioned reinforcement learning aims to acquire policies that can reach…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Kuan Fang , Patrick Yin , Ashvin Nair , Sergey Levine

This paper presents a hierarchical framework to solve the multi-robot temporal task planning problem. We assume that each robot has its individual task specification and the robots have to jointly satisfy a global collaborative task…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Ruofei Bai , Ronghao Zheng , Yang Xu , Meiqin Liu , Senlin Zhang

Hierarchical Task Network (HTN) planning usually requires a domain engineer to provide manual input about how to decompose a planning problem. Even HTN-MAKER, a well-known method-learning algorithm, requires a domain engineer to annotate…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Ruoxi Li , Dana Nau , Mark Roberts , Morgan Fine-Morris

Robotic planning problems in hybrid state and action spaces can be solved by integrated task and motion planners (TAMP) that handle the complex interaction between motion-level decisions and task-level plan feasibility. TAMP approaches rely…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Tom Silver , Rohan Chitnis , Joshua Tenenbaum , Leslie Pack Kaelbling , Tomas Lozano-Perez

In this work, we propose a novel shared autonomy framework to operate articulated robots. We provide strategies to design both the task-oriented hierarchical planning and policy shaping algorithms for efficient human-robot interactions in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Ehsan Yousefi , Mo Chen , Inna Sharf

The main goal in task planning is to build a sequence of actions that takes an agent from an initial state to a goal state. In robotics, this is particularly difficult because actions usually have several possible results, and sensors are…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-04-12 Sergio A. Serrano , Elizabeth Santiago , Jose Martinez-Carranza , Eduardo Morales , L. Enrique Sucar

This paper presents a comprehensive framework to enhance Human-Robot Collaboration (HRC) in real-world scenarios. It introduces a formalism to model articulated tasks, requiring cooperation between two agents, through a smaller set of…

An agent assisting humans in daily living activities can collaborate more effectively by anticipating upcoming tasks. Data-driven methods represent the state of the art in task anticipation, planning, and related problems, but these methods…

Intelligent interaction with the real world requires robotic agents to jointly reason over high-level plans and low-level controls. Task and motion planning (TAMP) addresses this by combining symbolic planning and continuous trajectory…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Denis Shcherba , Eckart Cobo-Briesewitz , Cornelius V. Braun , Marc Toussaint

Behavior Trees (BTs) are increasingly becoming a popular control structure in robotics due to their modularity, reactivity, and robustness. In terms of BT generation methods, BT planning shows promise for generating reliable BTs. However,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Yishuai Cai , Xinglin Chen , Yunxin Mao , Minglong Li , Shaowu Yang , Wenjing Yang , Ji Wang

Agentic artificial intelligence (AI) is an AI paradigm that can perceive the environment, reason over observations, and execute actions to achieve specific goals. Task-oriented communication supports agentic AI by transmitting only the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-16 Sin-Yu Huang , Lele Wang , Vincent W. S. Wong

We introduce a framework for cooperative manipulation, applied on an underactuated manipulation problem. Two stationary robotic manipulators are required to cooperate in order to reposition an object within their shared work space. Control…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Sander De Witte , Tom Lefebvre , Thijs Van Hauwermeiren , Guillaume Crevecoeur

Executing temporal plans in the real and open world requires adapting to uncertainty both in the environment and in the plan actions. A plan executor must therefore be flexible to dispatch actions based on the actual execution conditions.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Josh Zapf , Marco Roveri , Francisco Martin , Juan Carlos Manzanares

Humanoid robots must master numerous tasks with sparse rewards, posing a challenge for reinforcement learning (RL). We propose a method combining RL and automated planning to address this. Our approach uses short goal-conditioned policies…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-01-06 Gavin B. Rens

Reinforcement learning has been successful in many tasks ranging from robotic control, games, energy management etc. In complex real world environments with sparse rewards and long task horizons, sample efficiency is still a major…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Bharat Prakash , Nicholas Waytowich , Tim Oates , Tinoosh Mohsenin

Learning to solve long horizon temporally extended tasks with reinforcement learning has been a challenge for several years now. We believe that it is important to leverage both the hierarchical structure of complex tasks and to use expert…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Bharat Prakash , Nicholas Waytowich , Tim Oates , Tinoosh Mohsenin

Mobile manipulators are envisioned to serve more complex roles in people's everyday lives. With recent breakthroughs in large language models, task planners have become better at translating human verbal instructions into a sequence of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Xintong Du , Siqi Zhou , Angela P. Schoellig