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For effective human-robot interaction, robots need to understand, plan, and execute complex, long-horizon tasks described by natural language. Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have shown promise for translating natural…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Yongchao Chen , Jacob Arkin , Charles Dawson , Yang Zhang , Nicholas Roy , Chuchu Fan

To achieve optimal robot behavior in dynamic scenarios we need to consider complex dynamics in a predictive manner. In the vehicle dynamics community, it is well know that to achieve time-optimal driving on low surface, the vehicle should…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Zlatan Ajanović , Enrico Regolin , Barys Shyrokau , Hana Ćatić , Martin Horn , Antonella Ferrara

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

While recent advances in vision-language models have accelerated the development of language-guided robot planners, their black-box nature often lacks safety guarantees and interpretability crucial for real-world deployment. Conversely,…

Integrating robotic systems in architectural and construction processes is of core interest to increase the efficiency of the building industry. Automated planning for such systems enables design analysis tools and facilitates faster design…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Valentin N. Hartmann , Ozgur S. Oguz , Danny Driess , Marc Toussaint , Achim Menges

This study proposes a hierarchically integrated framework for safe task and motion planning (TAMP) of bipedal locomotion in a partially observable environment with dynamic obstacles and uneven terrain. The high-level task planner employs…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-09 Abdulaziz Shamsah , Zhaoyuan Gu , Jonas Warnke , Seth Hutchinson , Ye Zhao

Complex manipulation tasks require careful integration of symbolic reasoning and motion planning. This problem, commonly referred to as Task and Motion Planning (TAMP), is even more challenging if the workspace is non-static, e.g. due to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Nicola Castaman , Enrico Pagello , Emanuele Menegatti , Alberto Pretto

Task and Motion Planning (TAMP) algorithms solve long-horizon robotics tasks by integrating task planning with motion planning; the task planner proposes a sequence of actions towards a goal state and the motion planner verifies whether…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Brandon Vu , Toki Migimatsu , Jeannette Bohg

Task and motion planning (TAMP) algorithms have been developed to help robots plan behaviors in discrete and continuous spaces. Robots face complex real-world scenarios, where it is hardly possible to model all objects or their physical…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Yan Ding , Xiaohan Zhang , Xingyue Zhan , Shiqi Zhang

While Large Language Models (LLM) enable non-experts to specify open-world multi-robot tasks, the generated plans often lack kinematic feasibility and are not efficient, especially in long-horizon scenarios. Formal methods like Linear…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Shuyuan Hu , Tao Lin , Kai Ye , Yang Yang , Tianwei Zhang

Task and Motion Planning (TAMP) has made strides in complex manipulation tasks, yet the execution robustness of the planned solutions remains overlooked. In this work, we propose a method for reactive TAMP to cope with runtime uncertainties…

Mobile robots are often tasked with repeatedly navigating through an environment whose traversability changes over time. These changes may exhibit some hidden structure, which can be learned. Many studies consider reactive algorithms for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-12-07 Florence Tsang , Tristan Walker , Ryan A. MacDonald , Armin Sadeghi , Stephen L. Smith

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

Current robots are capable of computing plans to accomplish complex tasks. However, real-world environments are inherently open and dynamic, and unforeseen situations frequently arise during plan execution, such as jamming doors and fallen…

Integrated task and motion planning (TAMP) is desirable for generalized autonomy robots but it is challenging at the same time. TAMP requires the planner to not only search in both the large symbolic task space and the high-dimension motion…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-18 Tianyu Ren , Georgia Chalvatzaki , Jan Peters

Imitation learning from human demonstrations can teach robots complex manipulation skills, but is time-consuming and labor intensive. In contrast, Task and Motion Planning (TAMP) systems are automated and excel at solving long-horizon…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Ajay Mandlekar , Caelan Garrett , Danfei Xu , Dieter Fox

Task and motion planning problems in robotics combine symbolic planning over discrete task variables with motion optimization over continuous state and action variables. Recent works such as PDDLStream have focused on optimistic planning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Mohamed Khodeir , Ben Agro , Florian Shkurti

Robotic manipulation in complex, constrained spaces is vital for widespread applications but challenging, particularly when navigating narrow passages with elongated objects. Existing planning methods often fail in these low-clearance…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Zihao Li , Yiming Zhu , Zhe Zhong , Qinyuan Ren , Yijiang Huang

Foundation models like Vision-Language Models (VLMs) excel at common sense vision and language tasks such as visual question answering. However, they cannot yet directly solve complex, long-horizon robot manipulation problems requiring…

Manipulation tasks such as preparing a meal or assembling furniture remain highly challenging for robotics and vision. Traditional task and motion planning (TAMP) methods can solve complex tasks but require full state observability and are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Robin Strudel , Alexander Pashevich , Igor Kalevatykh , Ivan Laptev , Josef Sivic , Cordelia Schmid