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Research in robotic planning with temporal logic specifications, such as Linear Temporal Logic (LTL), has relied on single formulas. However, as task complexity increases, LTL formulas become lengthy, making them difficult to interpret and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Xusheng Luo , Changliu Liu

Contact-based decision and planning methods are becoming increasingly important to endow higher levels of autonomy for legged robots. Formal synthesis methods derived from symbolic systems have great potential for reasoning about high-level…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Ye Zhao , Yinan Li , Luis Sentis , Ufuk Topcu , Jun Liu

We propose a multi-robot control paradigm to solve point-to-point navigation tasks for a team of holonomic robots with access to the full environment information. The framework invokes two processes asynchronously at high frequency: (i) a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Ajay Shankar , Keisuke Okumura , Amanda Prorok

One of the standing challenges in multi-robot systems is the ability to reliably coordinate motions of multiple robots in environments where the robots are subject to disturbances. We consider disturbances that force the robot to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-03-30 Michal Čáp , Jean Gregoire , Emilio Frazzoli

This article presents MAPS$^2$ : a distributed algorithm that allows multi-robot systems to deliver coupled tasks expressed as Signal Temporal Logic (STL) constraints. Classical control theoretical tools addressing STL constraints either…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Mayank Sewlia , Christos K. Verginis , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

This paper tackles the problem of integrated task and kinodynamic motion planning in uncertain environments. We consider a robot with nonlinear dynamics tasked with a Linear Temporal Logic over finite traces ($\ltlf$) specification…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Qi Heng Ho , Zachary N. Sunberg , Morteza Lahijanian

In this paper, we consider the robot motion (or task) planning problem under some given time bounded high level specifications. We use metric interval temporal logic (MITL), a member of the temporal logic family, to represent the task…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-03-30 Yuchen Zhou , Dipankar Maity , John S. Baras

Robots interacting with humans must be safe, reactive and adapt online to unforeseen environmental and task changes. Achieving these requirements concurrently is a challenge as interactive planners lack formal safety guarantees, while safe…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Farhad Nawaz , Shaoting Peng , Lars Lindemann , Nadia Figueroa , Nikolai Matni

Multi-robot systems are emerging as a promising solution to the growing demand for productivity, safety, and adaptability across industrial sectors. However, effectively coordinating multiple robots in dynamic and uncertain environments,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Min Deng , Bo Fu , Lingyao Li , Xi Wang

This work presents a novel co-design strategy that integrates trajectory planning and control to handle STL-based tasks in autonomous robots. The method consists of two phases: $(i)$ learning spatio-temporal motion primitives to encapsulate…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Manas Sashank Juvvi , Tushar Dilip Kurne , Vaishnavi J , Shishir Kolathaya , Pushpak Jagtap

There is a growing interest on formal methods-based robotic planning for temporal logic objectives. In this work, we extend the scope of existing synthesis methods to hyper-temporal logics. We are motivated by the fact that important…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-04-30 Yu Wang , Siddhartha Nalluri , Miroslav Pajic

This paper presents a distributed rule-based Lloyd algorithm (RBL) for multi-robot motion planning and control. The main limitations of the basic Loyd-based algorithm (LB) concern deadlock issues and the failure to address dynamic…

This paper considers robot motion planning under temporal logic constraints in probabilistic maps obtained by semantic simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM). The uncertainty in a map distribution presents a great challenge for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Jie Fu , Nikolay Atanasov , Ufuk Topcu , George J. Pappas

Robots operate under significant uncertainty, from quantifiable noise to unquantifiable unknowns, and must account for strict operational constraints, such as limited resources. In this paper, we consider the problem of synthesizing robust…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Yihao Yin , Pian Yu , Andrea Turrini , Zhiming Chi , Yong Li , Lijun Zhang

This work develops a zero-shot mechanism, Comp-LTL, for an agent to satisfy a Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) specification given existing task primitives trained via reinforcement learning (RL). Autonomous robots often need to satisfy spatial…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Taylor Bergeron , Zachary Serlin , Kevin Leahy

This paper presents an incremental replanning algorithm, dubbed LTL-D*, for temporal-logic-based task planning in a dynamically changing environment. Unexpected changes in the environment may lead to failures in satisfying a task…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Jiming Ren , Haris Miller , Karen M. Feigh , Samuel Coogan , Ye Zhao

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

In this work, a novel method for planar task and motion planning based on hybrid modeling is proposed. By virtue of a discrete variable which models local constraint satisfaction and enables local feasibility analysis, the proposed control…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Panagiotis Rousseas , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

The reliable execution of high-level missions in multi-robot systems with heterogeneous agents, requires robust methods for detecting spurious behaviors. In this paper, we address the challenge of identifying spurious executions of plans…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Fernando Salanova , Jesús Roche , Cristian Mahulea , Eduardo Montijano

Multi-robot planning and coordination in uncertain environments is a fundamental computational challenge, since the belief space increases exponentially with the number of robots. In this paper, we address the problem of planning in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Cora A. Duggan , Kevin C. Wolfe , Bradley Woosley , Marin Kobilarov , Joseph Moore