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Efficient coordination and planning is essential for large-scale multi-agent systems that collaborate in a shared dynamic environment. Heuristic search methods or learning-based approaches often lack the guarantee on correctness and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Zesen Liu , Meng Guo , Weimin Bao , Zhongkui Li

This paper presents a method for designing energy-aware collaboration tasks between humans and robots, and generating corresponding trajectories to carry out those tasks. The method involves using high-level specifications expressed as…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Giuseppe Silano , Amr Afifi , Martin Saska , Antonio Franchi

This paper addresses a motion planning problem to achieve spatio-temporal-logical tasks, expressed by syntactically co-safe linear temporal logic specifications (scLTL\next), in uncertain environments. Here, the uncertainty is modeled as…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Azizollah Taheri , Derya Aksaray

Continuous-time control of multiple quadrotors in constrained environments under signal temporal logic (STL) specifications is critical due to their nonlinear dynamics, safety constraints, and the requirement to ensure continuous-time…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-31 Yating Yuan , Yu Liu

Motion planning in environments with multiple agents is critical to many important autonomous applications such as autonomous vehicles and assistive robots. This paper considers the problem of motion planning, where the controlled agent…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Yuxiao Chen , Ugo Rosolia , Chuchu Fan , Aaron D. Ames , Richard Murray

The paper addresses task assignment and trajectory generation for collaborative inspection missions using a fleet of multi-rotors, focusing on the wind turbine inspection scenario. The proposed solution enables safe and feasible…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Giuseppe Silano , Alvaro Caballero , Davide Liuzza , Luigi Iannelli , Stjepan Bogdan , Martin Saska

In order to solve complex, long-horizon tasks, intelligent robots need to carry out high-level, abstract planning and reasoning in conjunction with motion planning. However, abstract models are typically lossy and plans or policies computed…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Naman Shah , Deepak Kala Vasudevan , Kislay Kumar , Pranav Kamojjhala , Siddharth Srivastava

Multi-agent systems can be extremely efficient when solving a team-wide task in a concurrent manner. However, without proper synchronization, the correctness of the combined behavior is hard to guarantee, such as to follow a specific…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Zesen Liu , Meng Guo , Zhongkui Li

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

This study examines the problem of hopping robot navigation planning to achieve simultaneous goal-directed and environment exploration tasks. We consider a scenario in which the robot has mandatory goal-directed tasks defined using Linear…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Jesse Jiang , Samuel Coogan , Ye Zhao

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

Past research into robotic planning with temporal logic specifications, notably Linear Temporal Logic (LTL), was largely based on a single formula for individual or groups of robots. But with increasing task complexity, LTL formulas…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Xusheng Luo , Shaojun Xu , Ruixuan Liu , Changliu Liu

Motion planning for autonomous vehicles often requires satisfying multiple conditionally conflicting specifications. In situations where not all specifications can be met simultaneously, minimum-violation motion planning maintains system…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Patrick Halder , Lothar Kiltz , Hannes Homburger , Johannes Reuter , Matthias Althoff

In this paper, we consider the automated planning of optimal paths for a robotic team satisfying a high level mission specification. Each robot in the team is modeled as a weighted transition system where the weights have associated…

Robotics · Computer Science 2015-03-13 Alphan Ulusoy , Stephen L. Smith , Calin Belta

The control of dynamical systems under temporal logic specifications among uncontrollable dynamic agents is challenging due to the agents' a-priori unknown behavior. Existing works have considered the problem where either all agents are…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-21 Xinyi Yu , Yiqi Zhao , Xiang Yin , Lars Lindemann

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

We propose a distributed planning method with asynchronous execution for multi-agent pickup and delivery (MAPD) problems for environments with occasional delays in agents' activities and flexible endpoints. MAPD is a crucial problem…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Yuki Miyashita , Tomoki Yamauchi , Toshiharu Sugawara

This paper addresses decentralized control of large-scale heterogeneous multi-agent systems subject to bounded external disturbances and limited communication, with the objective of satisfying cooperative Signal Temporal Logic (STL)…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-27 Tommaso Zaccherini , Siyuan Liu , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

This paper considers the motion control and task planning problem of mobile robots under complex high-level tasks and human initiatives. The assigned task is specified as Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) formulas that consist of hard and soft…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-02-21 Meng Guo , Sofie Andersson , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

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