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Task and Motion Planning (TAMP) algorithms can generate plans that combine logic and motion aspects for robots. However, these plans are sensitive to interference and control errors. To make TAMP more applicable in real-world, we propose…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Tao Lin , Chengfei Yue , Ziran Liu , Xibin Cao

We present an efficient task and motion replanning approach for sequential multi-object manipulation in dynamic environments. Conventional Task And Motion Planning (TAMP) solvers experience an exponential increase in planning time as the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Yan Zhang , Teng Xue , Amirreza Razmjoo , Sylvain Calinon

We consider manipulation problems in constrained and cluttered settings, which require several regrasps at unknown locations. We propose to inform an optimization-based task and motion planning (TAMP) solver with possible regrasp areas and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Svetlana Levit , Marc Toussaint

Planning is one of the most critical tasks in autonomous systems, where even a small error can lead to major failures or million-dollar losses. Current state-of-the-art neural planning approaches struggle with complex domains, producing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Ronit Virwani , Ruchika Suryawanshi

The recent breakthroughs in the research on Large Language Models (LLMs) have triggered a transformation across several research domains. Notably, the integration of LLMs has greatly enhanced performance in robot Task And Motion Planning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Yuchen Liu , Luigi Palmieri , Sebastian Koch , Ilche Georgievski , Marco Aiello

Planning-based reinforcement learning has shown strong performance in tasks in discrete and low-dimensional continuous action spaces. However, planning usually brings significant computational overhead for decision-making, and scaling such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-25 Zhengyao Jiang , Tianjun Zhang , Michael Janner , Yueying Li , Tim Rocktäschel , Edward Grefenstette , Yuandong Tian

Reinforcement learning is an appropriate and successful method to robustly perform low-level robot control under noisy conditions. Symbolic action planning is useful to resolve causal dependencies and to break a causally complex problem…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Manfred Eppe , Phuong D. H. Nguyen , Stefan Wermter

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

While robots can learn models to solve many manipulation tasks from raw visual input, they cannot usually use these models to solve new problems. On the other hand, symbolic planning methods such as STRIPS have long been able to solve new…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Kei Kase , Chris Paxton , Hammad Mazhar , Tetsuya Ogata , Dieter Fox

Loco-manipulation planning skills are pivotal for expanding the utility of robots in everyday environments. These skills can be assessed based on a system's ability to coordinate complex holistic movements and multiple contact interactions…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Jean-Pierre Sleiman , Farbod Farshidian , Marco Hutter

Sequential decision-making and motion planning for robotic manipulation induce combinatorial complexity. For long-horizon tasks, especially when the environment comprises many objects that can be interacted with, planning efficiency becomes…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Cornelius V. Braun , Joaquim Ortiz-Haro , Marc Toussaint , Ozgur S. Oguz

Task and Motion Planning (TAMP) integrates high-level task planning with low-level motion feasibility, but existing methods are costly in long-horizon problems due to excessive motion sampling. While LLMs provide commonsense priors, they…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Minseo Kwon , Young J. Kim

Long-term non-prehensile planar manipulation is a challenging task for robot planning and feedback control. It is characterized by underactuation, hybrid control, and contact uncertainty. One main difficulty is to determine both the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-12 Teng Xue , Hakan Girgin , Teguh Santoso Lembono , Sylvain Calinon

Simulation is essential for developing robotic manipulation systems, particularly for task and motion planning (TAMP), where symbolic reasoning interfaces with geometric, kinematic, and physics-based execution. Recent advances in Large…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Muhayy Ud Din , Jan Rosell , Waseem Akram , Irfan Hussain

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

We introduce TAPAS (Task-based Adaptation and Planning using AgentS), a multi-agent framework that integrates Large Language Models (LLMs) with symbolic planning to solve complex tasks without the need for manually defined environment…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Harisankar Babu , Philipp Schillinger , Tamim Asfour

Pre-trained large language models (LLMs) show promise for robotic task planning but often struggle to guarantee correctness in long-horizon problems. Task and motion planning (TAMP) addresses this by grounding symbolic plans in low-level…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Jinbang Huang , Yixin Xiao , Zhanguang Zhang , Mark Coates , Jianye Hao , Yingxue Zhang

Task and motion planning represents a powerful set of hybrid planning methods that combine reasoning over discrete task domains and continuous motion generation. Traditional reasoning necessitates task domain models and enough information…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Tianyang Pan , Rahul Shome , Lydia E. Kavraki

Planning long-horizon robot manipulation requires making discrete decisions about which objects to interact with and continuous decisions about how to interact with them. A robot planner must select grasps, placements, and motions that are…

This paper addresses the problem of multi-robot coordination for complex manipulation task sequences. We present a vision-driven task-and-motion planning (TAMP) framework for a real dual-agent platform that integrates task decomposition and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Abdelaziz Shaarawy , Cansu Erdogan , Rustam Stolkin , Alireza Rastegarpanah