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Dual-arm robots play a crucial role in improving efficiency and flexibility in complex multitasking scenarios. While existing methods have achieved promising results in task planning, they often fail to fully optimize task parallelism,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Shiying Duan , Pei Ren , Nanxiang Jiang , Zhengping Che , Jian Tang , Zhaoxin Fan , Yifan Sun , Wenjun Wu

Programming a robot to deal with open-ended tasks remains a challenge, in particular if the robot has to manipulate objects. Launching, grasping, pushing or any other object interaction can be simulated but the corresponding models are not…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Seungsu Kim , Alexandre Coninx , Stephane Doncieux

Simulation-to-real is the task of training and developing machine learning models and deploying them in real settings with minimal additional training. This approach is becoming increasingly popular in fields such as robotics. However,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Yizhou Zhao , Yuanhong Zeng , Qian Long , Ying Nian Wu , Song-Chun Zhu

Domestic and service robots have the potential to transform industries such as health care and small-scale manufacturing, as well as the homes in which we live. However, due to the overwhelming variety of tasks these robots will be expected…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-06-04 Gavin Suddrey , Ben Talbot , Frederic Maire

Two cooperating, autonomous mobile robots with arbitrary nonzero max speeds are placed at arbitrary initial positions in the plane. A remotely detonated bomb is discovered at some source location and must be moved to a safe distance away…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Jared Coleman , Evangelos Kranakis , Danny Krizanc , Oscar Morales-Ponce

We present an interactive, computational design system for creating custom robotic arms given high-level task descriptions and environmental constraints. Various task requirements can be encoded as desired motion trajectories for the robot…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-06-21 Ruta Desai , Margarita Safonova , Katharina Muelling , Stelian Coros

This work-in-progress paper presents our work with a domain specific language (DSL) for tackling the issue of programming robots for small-sized batch production. We observe that as the complexity of assembly increases so does the…

In modern industrial settings with small batch sizes it should be easy to set up a robot system for a new task. Strategies exist, e.g. the use of skills, but when it comes to handling forces and torques, these systems often fall short. We…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Matthias Mayr , Faseeh Ahmad , Konstantinos Chatzilygeroudis , Luigi Nardi , Volker Krueger

Robots have inherently limited onboard processing, storage, and power capabilities. Cloud computing resources have the potential to provide significant advantages for robots in many applications. However, to make use of these resources,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-09-16 Manoj Penmetcha , Shyam Sundar Kannan , Byung-Cheol Min

Recent large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated promising capabilities in modeling real-world knowledge and enhancing knowledge-based generation tasks. In this paper, we further explore the potential of using LLMs to aid in the design…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Weicheng Ma , Luyang Zhao , Chun-Yi She , Yitao Jiang , Alan Sun , Bo Zhu , Devin Balkcom , Soroush Vosoughi

Model-based planning and execution systems offer a principled approach to building flexible autonomous robots that can perform diverse tasks by automatically combining a host of basic skills. This idea is almost as old as modern robotics.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Or Wertheim , Ronen I. Brafman

This paper presents a novel concept for intuitive end-user programming of robots, inspired by natural interaction between humans. Natural language and supportive gestures are translated into robot programs using large language models (LLMs)…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Bijan Kavousian , Petar Tesic , Oliver Petrovic , Christian Brecher

Traditional goal-oriented dialogue systems rely on various components such as natural language understanding, dialogue state tracking, policy learning and response generation. Training each component requires annotations which are hard to…

Recent advancements in Large Language Models have sparked interest in their potential for robotic task planning. While these models demonstrate strong generative capabilities, their effectiveness in producing structured and executable plans…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Kai Goebel , Patrik Zips

In paper describes the new logic programming language Delta, which have a many good properties. Delta-programs is p-computable, verifiable and can translation on other languages. Also we describe the Delta-methodology for constructing…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-07-19 Andrey Nechesov

Building end-to-end task bots and maintaining their integration with new functionalities using minimal human efforts is a long-standing challenge in dialog research. Recently large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated exceptional…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Xiaoying Zhang , Baolin Peng , Kun Li , Jingyan Zhou , Helen Meng

As service robots become more capable of autonomous behaviors, it becomes increasingly important to consider how people communicate with a robot what task it should perform and how to do the task. Accordingly, there has been a rise in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Laura Stegner , David Porfirio , Mark Roberts , Laura M. Hiatt

This paper presents an experimental study regarding the use of OpenAI's ChatGPT for robotics applications. We outline a strategy that combines design principles for prompt engineering and the creation of a high-level function library which…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Sai Vemprala , Rogerio Bonatti , Arthur Bucker , Ashish Kapoor

This paper proposes a novel end-to-end architecture for task-oriented dialogue systems. It is based on a simple and practical yet very effective sequence-to-sequence approach, where language understanding and state tracking tasks are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-08 Lei Shu , Piero Molino , Mahdi Namazifar , Hu Xu , Bing Liu , Huaixiu Zheng , Gokhan Tur

This paper introduces the human-curated PandasPlotBench dataset, designed to evaluate language models' effectiveness as assistants in visual data exploration. Our benchmark focuses on generating code for visualizing tabular data - such as a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Timur Galimzyanov , Sergey Titov , Yaroslav Golubev , Egor Bogomolov