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Task planning and motion planning are two of the most important problems in robotics, where task planning methods help robots achieve high-level goals and motion planning methods maintain low-level feasibility. Task and motion planning…

Robotic planning problems in hybrid state and action spaces can be solved by integrated task and motion planners (TAMP) that handle the complex interaction between motion-level decisions and task-level plan feasibility. TAMP approaches rely…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Tom Silver , Rohan Chitnis , Joshua Tenenbaum , Leslie Pack Kaelbling , Tomas Lozano-Perez

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

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

Intelligent interaction with the real world requires robotic agents to jointly reason over high-level plans and low-level controls. Task and motion planning (TAMP) addresses this by combining symbolic planning and continuous trajectory…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Denis Shcherba , Eckart Cobo-Briesewitz , Cornelius V. Braun , Marc Toussaint

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

The ability to plan for multi-step manipulation tasks in unseen situations is crucial for future home robots. But collecting sufficient experience data for end-to-end learning is often infeasible in the real world, as deploying robots in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-05-18 Chen Wang , Danfei Xu , Li Fei-Fei

We address the problem of applying Task and Motion Planning (TAMP) in real world environments. TAMP combines symbolic and geometric reasoning to produce sequential manipulation plans, typically specified as joint-space trajectories, which…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-05-06 Toki Migimatsu , Jeannette Bohg

Task and motion planning (TAMP) frameworks address long and complex planning problems by integrating high-level task planners with low-level motion planners. However, existing TAMP methods rely heavily on the manual design of planning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Jinbang Huang , Allen Tao , Rozilyn Marco , Miroslav Bogdanovic , Jonathan Kelly , Florian Shkurti

Integrated task and motion planning (TAMP) has proven to be a valuable approach to generalizable long-horizon robotic manipulation and navigation problems. However, the typical TAMP problem formulation assumes full observability and…

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

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

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 is one of the key problems in robotics today. It is often formulated as a discrete task allocation problem combined with continuous motion planning. Many existing approaches to TAMP involve explicit descriptions of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Jimmy Envall , Roi Poranne , Stelian Coros

We propose a new framework for discovering landmarks that automatically generalize across a domain. These generalized landmarks are learned from a set of solved instances and describe intermediate goals for planning problems where…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Issa Hanou , Sebastijan Dumančić , Mathijs de Weerdt

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

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

We present a task-and-motion planning (TAMP) algorithm robust against a human operator's cooperative or adversarial interventions. Interventions often invalidate the current plan and require replanning on the fly. Replanning can be…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Shen Li , Daehyung Park , Yoonchang Sung , Julie A. Shah , Nicholas Roy

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

The objective of this work is to augment the basic abilities of a robot by learning to use new sensorimotor primitives to enable the solution of complex long-horizon problems. Solving long-horizon problems in complex domains requires…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-08-14 Zi Wang , Caelan Reed Garrett , Leslie Pack Kaelbling , Tomás Lozano-Pérez