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Mastering complex sequential tasks continues to pose a significant challenge in robotics. While there has been progress in learning long-horizon manipulation tasks, most existing approaches lack rigorous mathematical guarantees for ensuring…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Alexandre St-Aubin , Amin Abyaneh , Hsiu-Chin Lin

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

Long-horizon tasks, usually characterized by complex subtask dependencies, present a significant challenge in manipulation planning. Skill chaining is a practical approach to solving unseen tasks by combining learned skill priors. However,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Utkarsh A. Mishra , Shangjie Xue , Yongxin Chen , Danfei Xu

Planning for sequential robotics tasks often requires integrated symbolic and geometric reasoning. TAMP algorithms typically solve these problems by performing a tree search over high-level task sequences while checking for kinematic and…

Current robotic planning methods often rely on predicting multi-frame images with full pixel details. While this fine-grained approach can serve as a generic world model, it introduces two significant challenges for downstream policy…

We present a Sequential Mobile Manipulation Planning (SMMP) framework that can solve long-horizon multi-step mobile manipulation tasks with coordinated whole-body motion, even when interacting with articulated objects. By abstracting…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Ziyuan Jiao , Yida Niu , Zeyu Zhang , Yangyang Wu , Yao Su , Yixin Zhu , Hangxin Liu , Song-Chun Zhu

The ability to perform reliable long-horizon task planning is crucial for deploying robots in real-world environments. However, directly employing Large Language Models (LLMs) as action sequence generators often results in low success rates…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Tianxing Zhou , Zhirui Wang , Haojia Ao , Guangyan Chen , Boyang Xing , Jingwen Cheng , Yi Yang , Yufeng Yue

We tackle real-world long-horizon robot manipulation tasks through skill discovery. We present a bottom-up approach to learning a library of reusable skills from unsegmented demonstrations and use these skills to synthesize prolonged robot…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Yifeng Zhu , Peter Stone , Yuke Zhu

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

Autonomous agents powered by large language models (LLMs) have shown impressive capabilities in tool manipulation for complex task-solving. However, existing paradigms such as ReAct rely on sequential reasoning and execution, failing to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Jiaqi Wu , Qinlao Zhao , Zefeng Chen , Kai Qin , Yifei Zhao , Xueqian Wang , Yuhang Yao

Developing robotic systems capable of robustly executing long-horizon manipulation tasks with human-level dexterity is challenging, as such tasks require both physical dexterity and seamless sequencing of manipulation skills while robustly…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Weikang Wan , Jiawei Fu , Xiaodi Yuan , Yifeng Zhu , Hao Su

Task and motion planning (TAMP) algorithms aim to help robots achieve task-level goals, while maintaining motion-level feasibility. This paper focuses on TAMP domains that involve robot behaviors that take extended periods of time (e.g.,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-02-25 Xiaohan Zhang , Yifeng Zhu , Yan Ding , Yuke Zhu , Peter Stone , Shiqi Zhang

This study proposes LiP-LLM: integrating linear programming and dependency graph with large language models (LLMs) for multi-robot task planning. In order for multiple robots to perform tasks more efficiently, it is necessary to manage the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Kazuma Obata , Tatsuya Aoki , Takato Horii , Tadahiro Taniguchi , Takayuki Nagai

Human-robot handovers are characterized by high uncertainty and poor structure of the problem that make them difficult tasks. While machine learning methods have shown promising results, their application to problems with large state…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-10-18 Francesco Riccio , Roberto Capobianco , Daniele Nardi

This paper addresses human-robot collaboration (HRC) challenges of integrating predictions of human activity to provide a proactive-n-reactive response capability for the robot. Prior works that consider current or predicted human poses as…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Jared Flowers , Marco Faroni , Gloria Wiens , Nicola Pedrocchi

General-purpose robots require diverse repertoires of behaviors to complete challenging tasks in real-world unstructured environments. To address this issue, goal-conditioned reinforcement learning aims to acquire policies that can reach…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Kuan Fang , Patrick Yin , Ashvin Nair , Sergey Levine

For autonomous service robots to successfully perform long horizon tasks in the real world, they must act intelligently in partially observable environments. Most Task and Motion Planning approaches assume full observability of their state…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Alphonsus Adu-Bredu , Nikhil Devraj , Pin-Han Lin , Zhen Zeng , Odest Chadwicke Jenkins

In the endeavor to make autonomous robots take actions, task planning is a major challenge that requires translating high-level task descriptions to long-horizon action sequences. Despite recent advances in language model agents, they…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Jinghan Li , Zhicheng Sun , Yadong Mu

Solving real-world manipulation tasks requires robots to have a repertoire of skills applicable to a wide range of circumstances. When using learning-based methods to acquire such skills, the key challenge is to obtain training data that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Kuan Fang , Toki Migimatsu , Ajay Mandlekar , Li Fei-Fei , Jeannette Bohg

We propose a novel method for exploring the dynamics of physically based animated characters, and learning a task-agnostic action space that makes movement optimization easier. Like several previous papers, we parameterize actions as target…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-26 Amin Babadi , Michiel van de Panne , C. Karen Liu , Perttu Hämäläinen