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Robotics researchers increasingly leverage large language models (LLM) in robotics systems, using them as interfaces to receive task commands, generate task plans, form team coalitions, and allocate tasks among multi-robot and human agents.…

We aim to enable an autonomous robot to learn new skills from demo videos and use these newly learned skills to accomplish non-trivial high-level tasks. The goal of developing such autonomous robot involves knowledge representation,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-07-17 Zhiyu Liu , Meng Jiang , Hai Lin

In runtime verification, manually formalizing a specification for monitoring system executions is a tedious and error-prone process. To address this issue, we consider the problem of automatically synthesizing formal specifications from…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Ritam Raha , Rajarshi Roy , Nathanael Fijalkow , Daniel Neider , Guillermo A. Perez

Cooking recipes are challenging to translate to robot plans as they feature rich linguistic complexity, temporally-extended interconnected tasks, and an almost infinite space of possible actions. Our key insight is that combining a source…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Angelos Mavrogiannis , Christoforos Mavrogiannis , Yiannis Aloimonos

While Temporal Logic provides a rigorous verification framework for robotics, it typically operates on trajectory-level signals and does not natively represent the object-centric geometric relations that are central to manipulation.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Licheng Luo , Kaier Liang , Yu Xia , Mingyu Cai

Programming robots is a complicated and time-consuming task. A robot is essentially a real-time, distributed embedded system. Often, control and communication paths within the system are tightly coupled to the actual physical configuration…

Robotics · Computer Science 2014-01-08 Thomas Buchmann , Johannes Baumgartl , Dominik Henrich , Bernhard Westfechtel

Human-robot collaboration in industrial settings requires precise and reliable communication to enhance operational efficiency. While Large Language Models (LLMs) understand general language, they often lack the domain-specific rigidity…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Xinyun Huo , Raghav Gnanasambandam , Xinyao Zhang

Robotic path planning problems are often NP-hard, and practical solutions typically rely on approximation algorithms with provable performance guarantees for general cases. While designing such algorithms is challenging, formally proving…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Zhengbang Yang , Md. Tasin Tazwar , Minghan Wei , Zhuangdi Zhu

Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have shown significant promise in various domains, especially robotics. However, most prior LLM-based work in robotic applications either directly predicts waypoints or applies LLMs within…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Yue Meng , Fei Chen , Yongchao Chen , Chuchu Fan

This work considers the path planning problem for a team of identical robots evolving in a known environment. The robots should satisfy a global specification given as a Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) formula over a set of regions of interest.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-09 Sofia Hustiu , Cristian Mahulea , Marius Kloetzer , Jean-Jacques Lesage

This paper proposes a specification-guided framework for control of nonlinear systems with linear temporal logic (LTL) specifications. In contrast with well-known abstraction-based methods, the proposed framework directly characterizes the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-03 Yinan Li , Zhibing Sun , Jun Liu

Large Language Models (LLMs) present a promising frontier in robotic task planning by leveraging extensive human knowledge. Nevertheless, the current literature often overlooks the critical aspects of robots' adaptability and error…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Sthithpragya Gupta , Kunpeng Yao , Loïc Niederhauser , Aude Billard

This paper addresses a new semantic multi-robot planning problem in uncertain and dynamic environments. Particularly, the environment is occupied with non-cooperative, mobile, uncertain labeled targets. These targets are governed by…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Samarth Kalluraya , George J. Pappas , Yiannis Kantaros

Recent advancements in Large Language Models have sparked interest in their potential for robotic task planning. While these models demonstrate strong generative capabilities, their effectiveness in producing structured and executable plans…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Kai Goebel , Patrik Zips

It is crucial to efficiently execute instructions such as "Find an apple and a banana" or "Get ready for a field trip," which require searching for multiple objects or understanding context-dependent commands. This study addresses the…

Recent advances in Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated their promising capabilities of generating robot operation code to enable LLM-driven robots. To enhance the reliability of operation code generated by LLMs, corrective…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Wenhao Wang , Yi Rong , Yanyan Li , Long Jiao , Jiawei Yuan

The rapid advancement of Large Language Models (LLMs) has opened new possibilities in Multi-Robot Systems (MRS), enabling enhanced communication, task allocation and planning, and human-robot interaction. Unlike traditional single-robot and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Peihan Li , Zijian An , Shams Abrar , Lifeng Zhou

Tool use is a hallmark of advanced intelligence, exemplified in both animal behavior and robotic capabilities. This paper investigates the feasibility of imbuing robots with the ability to creatively use tools in tasks that involve implicit…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Mengdi Xu , Peide Huang , Wenhao Yu , Shiqi Liu , Xilun Zhang , Yaru Niu , Tingnan Zhang , Fei Xia , Jie Tan , Ding Zhao

Converting high-level tasks described by natural language into formal specifications like Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) is a key step towards providing formal safety guarantees over cyber-physical systems (CPS). While the compliance of the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Junle Li , Siqi Chen , Jiakai Li , Meiqi Tian , Bingzhuo Zhong

Most autonomous robotic agents use logic inference to keep themselves to safe and permitted behaviour. Given a set of rules, it is important that the robot is able to establish the consistency between its rules, its perception-based…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-11-11 Hongyang Qu , Sandor M. Veres