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In this work, we consider the problem of planning for temporal logic tasks in large robot environments. When full task compliance is unattainable, we aim to achieve the best possible task satisfaction by integrating user preferences for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Disha Kamale , Xi Yu , Cristian-Ioan Vasile

In this paper, we consider teams of robots with heterogeneous skills (e.g., sensing and manipulation) tasked with collaborative missions described by Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) formulas. These LTL-encoded tasks require robots to apply…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Samarth Kalluraya , Beichen Zhou , Yiannis Kantaros

In this paper, we consider the problem of optimally allocating tasks, expressed as global Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) specifications, to teams of heterogeneous mobile robots. The robots are classified in different types that capture their…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Xusheng Luo , Michael M. Zavlanos

Motion planning is the core problem to solve for developing any application involving an autonomous mobile robot. The fundamental motion planning problem involves generating a trajectory for a robot for point-to-point navigation while…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-10-03 Danish Khalidi , Dhaval Gujarathi , Indranil Saha

In this paper, we propose a sampling-based motion planning algorithm that finds an infinite path satisfying a Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) formula over a set of properties satisfied by some regions in a given environment. The algorithm has…

Robotics · Computer Science 2013-07-30 Cristian Ioan Vasile , Calin Belta

This paper proposes a new reactive temporal logic planning algorithm for multiple robots that operate in environments with unknown geometry modeled using occupancy grid maps. The robots are equipped with individual sensors that allow them…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Yiannis Kantaros , Matthew Malencia , George J. Pappas

This work studies the planning problem for robotic systems under both quantifiable and unquantifiable uncertainty. The objective is to enable the robotic systems to optimally fulfill high-level tasks specified by Linear Temporal Logic (LTL)…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Pian Yu , Yong Li , David Parker , Marta Kwiatkowska

In this work, we investigate task planning for mobile robots under linear temporal logic (LTL) specifications. This problem is particularly challenging when robots navigate in continuous workspaces due to the high computational complexity…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-27 Ruijia Liu , Shaoyuan Li , Xiang Yin

Formulating the intended behavior of a dynamic system can be challenging. Signal temporal logic (STL) is frequently used for this purpose due to its suitability in formalizing comprehensible, modular, and versatile spatiotemporal…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-04 Patrick Halder , Hannes Homburger , Lothar Kiltz , Johannes Reuter , Matthias Althoff

We present a motion planner for planning through space-time with dynamic obstacles, velocity constraints, and unknown arrival time. Our algorithm, Space-Time RRT* (ST-RRT*), is a probabilistically complete, bidirectional motion planning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-07 Francesco Grothe , Valentin N. Hartmann , Andreas Orthey , Marc Toussaint

Motion planning with simple objectives, such as collision-avoidance and goal-reaching, can be solved efficiently using modern planners. However, the complexity of the allowed tasks for these planners is limited. On the other hand, signal…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Wenliang Liu , Nathalie Majcherczyk , Federico Pecora

In this paper we present a method for automatically generating optimal robot trajectories satisfying high level mission specifications. The motion of the robot in the environment is modeled as a general transition system, enhanced with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2010-07-16 Stephen L. Smith , Jana Tumova , Calin Belta , Daniela Rus

Motion planning in the presence of multiple dynamic obstacles is an important research problem from the perspective of autonomous vehicles as well as space-constrained multi-robot work environment. In this paper, we address the motion…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-30 Trishant Roy , Anindya Harchowdhury , Leena Vachhani

Although Trajectory Optimization (TO) is one of the most powerful motion planning tools, it suffers from expensive computational complexity as a time horizon increases in cluttered environments. It can also fail to converge to a globally…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Yuki Shirai , Xuan Lin , Ankur Mehta , Dennis Hong

This paper addresses the online motion planning problem of mobile robots under complex high-level tasks. The robot motion is modeled as an uncertain Markov Decision Process (MDP) due to limited initial knowledge, while the task is specified…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-13 Yuyang Zhang , Meng Guo

Path planning is an important problem with the the applications in many aspects, such as video games, robotics etc. This paper proposes a novel method to address the problem of Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) based path planning for a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Hao Liu , Yi Shen , Shuangjiang Yu , Zijun Gao , Tong Wu

Ground robots navigating in complex, dynamic environments must compute collision-free trajectories to avoid obstacles safely and efficiently. Nonconvex optimization is a popular method to compute a trajectory in real-time. However, these…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Oscar de Groot , Laura Ferranti , Dariu M. Gavrila , Javier Alonso-Mora

Signal Temporal Logic (STL) is a powerful specification language for describing complex temporal behaviors of continuous signals, making it well-suited for high-level robotic task descriptions. However, generating executable plans for STL…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Ruijia Liu , Ancheng Hou , Xiao Yu , Xiang Yin

This paper studies motion planning of a mobile robot under uncertainty. The control objective is to synthesize a {finite-memory} control policy, such that a high-level task specified as a Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) formula is satisfied…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-10-24 Meng Guo , Michael M. Zavlanos

This paper addresses the planning and control problem for nonlinear systems under Signal Temporal Logic (STL) specifications. We first decompose an STL task into finite local tasks. A sampling-based method generates sequences of local…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-28 Zuodong Pan , Xu Fang , Wei Ren