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The problem of planning for a robot that operates in environments containing a large number of objects, taking actions to move itself through the world as well as to change the state of the objects, is known as task and motion planning…

Traditional Task and Motion Planning (TAMP) systems depend on physics models for motion planning and discrete symbolic models for task planning. Although physics model are often available, symbolic models (consisting of symbolic state…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Sami Azirar , Zlatan Ajanovic , Hermann Blum

Long-horizon task planning for heterogeneous multi-robot systems is essential for deploying collaborative teams in real-world environments; yet, it remains challenging due to the large volume of perceptual information, much of which is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Piyush Gupta , Sangjae Bae , Jiachen Li , David Isele

In the field of Learning from Demonstration (LfD), enabling robots to generalize learned manipulation skills to novel scenarios for long-horizon tasks remains challenging. Specifically, it is still difficult for robots to adapt the learned…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Zezhi Liu , Shizhen Wu , Hanqian Luo , Deyun Qin , Yongchun Fang

We present a learning-enabled Task and Motion Planning (TAMP) algorithm for solving mobile manipulation problems in environments with many articulated and movable obstacles. Our idea is to bias the search procedure of a traditional TAMP…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Zhutian Yang , Caelan Reed Garrett , Tomás Lozano-Pérez , Leslie Kaelbling , Dieter Fox

This paper presents a task and motion planning (TAMP) framework for a robotic manipulator in order to retrieve a target object from clutter. We consider a configuration of objects in a confined space with a high density so no collision-free…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-26 Changjoo Nam , Jinhwi Lee , Sang Hun Cheong , Brian Y. Cho , ChangHwan Kim

Neural-network-based dynamics models learned from observational data have shown strong predictive capabilities for scene dynamics in robotic manipulation tasks. However, their inherent non-linearity presents significant challenges for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Keyi Shen , Jiangwei Yu , Jose Barreiros , Huan Zhang , Yunzhu Li

In this work we consider the multi-agent motion planning (MAMP) problem with the constraint that agents arrive at their respective goals at the same time. For the special case where all agents are initially at rest we propose a two-step…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Anja Hellander , Daniel Axehill

There are many challenges in bimanual assembly, including high-level sequencing, multi-robot coordination, and low-level, contact-rich operations such as component mating. Task and motion planning (TAMP) methods, while effective in this…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Alexander L. Mitchell , Joe Watson , Ingmar Posner

Long-horizon decision-making with sparse rewards and continuous states and actions remains a fundamental challenge in AI and robotics. Task and motion planning (TAMP) is a model-based framework that addresses this challenge by planning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Y. Isabel Liu , Bowen Li , Benjamin Eysenbach , Tom Silver

We propose Synchronous Dual-Arm Rearrangement Planner (SDAR), a task and motion planning (TAMP) framework for tabletop rearrangement, where two robot arms equipped with 2-finger grippers must work together in close proximity to rearrange…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Duo Zhang , Junshan Huang , Jingjin Yu

In this paper, we tackle the problem of human-robot coordination in sequences of manipulation tasks. Our approach integrates hierarchical human motion prediction with Task and Motion Planning (TAMP). We first devise a hierarchical motion…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-06 An T. Le , Philipp Kratzer , Simon Hagenmayer , Marc Toussaint , Jim Mainprice

The challenge in combined task and motion planning (TAMP) is the effective integration of a search over a combinatorial space, usually carried out by a task planner, and a search over a continuous configuration space, carried out by a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Magí Dalmau-Moreno , Néstor García , Vicenç Gómez , Héctor Geffner

We introduce Reactive Action and Motion Planner (RAMP), which combines the strengths of sampling-based and reactive approaches for motion planning. In essence, RAMP is a hierarchical approach where a novel variant of a Model Predictive Path…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Vasileios Vasilopoulos , Suveer Garg , Pedro Piacenza , Jinwook Huh , Volkan Isler

With the rapid development of the new energy vehicle industry, the efficient disassembly and recycling of power batteries have become a critical challenge for the circular economy. In current unstructured disassembly scenarios, the dynamic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Ziwen He , Zhigang Wang , Yanlong Peng , Pengxu Chang , Hong Yang , Ming Chen

We present an integrated Task-Motion Planning (TMP) framework for navigation in large-scale environment. Autonomous robots operating in real world complex scenarios require planning in the discrete (task) space and the continuous (motion)…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-10-28 Antony Thomas , Fulvio Mastrogiovanni , Marco Baglietto

This paper presents an automatic merging algorithm for autonomous driving vehicles, which decouples the specific motion planning problem into a Dual-Layer Automatic Merge Planning (DL_AMP) and a Descent-Based Trajectory Optimization (DBTO).…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-02 Yuncheng Jiang , Qi Lin , Jiwei Zhang , Jun Wang , Danjian Qian , Yuxi Cai

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

Imitation learning is a powerful tool for training robot manipulation policies, allowing them to learn from expert demonstrations without manual programming or trial-and-error. However, common methods of data collection, such as human…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Murtaza Dalal , Ajay Mandlekar , Caelan Garrett , Ankur Handa , Ruslan Salakhutdinov , Dieter Fox

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