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A tactical military unit is a complex system composed of many agents such as infantry, robots, or drones. Given a mission, an automated planner can find an optimal plan. Therefore, the mission itself must be modeled. The problem is that…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Caroline Bonhomme , Jean-Louis Dufour

Automated planning using a symbolic planning language, such as PDDL, is a general approach to producing optimal plans to achieve a stated goal. However, creating suitable machine understandable descriptions of the planning domain, problem,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Owen Burns , Dana Hughes , Katia Sycara

Enabling humanoid robots to perform long-horizon mobile manipulation planning in real-world environments based on embodied perception and comprehension abilities has been a longstanding challenge. With the recent rise of large language…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Fangyuan Wang , Shipeng Lyu , Peng Zhou , Anqing Duan , Guodong Guo , David Navarro-Alarcon

Recent works have explored using language models for planning problems. One approach examines translating natural language descriptions of planning tasks into structured planning languages, such as the planning domain definition language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Max Zuo , Francisco Piedrahita Velez , Xiaochen Li , Michael L. Littman , Stephen H. Bach

Using LLMs not to predict plans but to formalize an environment into the Planning Domain Definition Language (PDDL) has been shown to improve performance and control. While most existing methodology only applies to fully observable…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Liancheng Gong , Wang Zhu , Jesse Thomason , Li Zhang

This paper presents a SysML profile that enables the direct integration of planning semantics based on the Planning Domain Definition Language (PDDL) into system models. Reusable stereotypes are defined for key PDDL concepts such as types,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Hamied Nabizada , Tom Jeleniewski , Lasse Beers , Maximilian Weigand , Felix Gehlhoff , Alexander Fay

While Large Language Models (LLMs) can solve many NLP tasks in zero-shot settings, applications involving embodied agents remain problematic. In particular, complex plans that require multi-step reasoning become difficult and too costly as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Gautier Dagan , Frank Keller , Alex Lascarides

Real world applications as in industry and robotics need modelling rich and diverse automated planning problems. Their resolution usually requires coordinated and concurrent action execution. In several cases, these problems are naturally…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Damien Pellier , Alexandre Albore , Humbert Fiorino , Rafael Bailon-Ruiz

Planning is a fundamental activity, arising frequently in many contexts, from daily tasks to industrial processes. The planning task consists of selecting a sequence of actions to achieve a specified goal from specified initial conditions.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Carla Davesa Sureda , Joan Espasa Arxer , Ian Miguel , Mateu Villaret Auselle

In recent advancements, large language models (LLMs) have exhibited proficiency in code generation and chain-of-thought reasoning, laying the groundwork for tackling automatic formal planning tasks. This study evaluates the potential of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Kaustubh Vyas , Damien Graux , Sébastien Montella , Pavlos Vougiouklis , Ruofei Lai , Keshuang Li , Yang Ren , Jeff Z. Pan

The recent advancement in artificial intelligence (AI) technologies facilitates a paradigm shift toward automation. Autonomous systems are fully or partially replacing manually crafted ones. At the core of these systems is automated…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Mir Md Sajid Sarwar

Task planning, the problem of sequencing actions to reach a goal from an initial state, is a core capability requirement for autonomous robotic systems. Whether large language models (LLMs) can serve as viable planners alongside classical…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Kai Göbel , Pierrick Lorang , Patrik Zips , Tobias Glück

Long-horizon task planning for heterogeneous multi-robot systems is essential for deploying collaborative teams in real-world environments; yet, it remains challenging due to the large volume of perceptual information, much of which is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Piyush Gupta , Sangjae Bae , Jiachen Li , David Isele

Large Language Models have been found to create plans that are neither executable nor verifiable in grounded environments. An emerging line of work demonstrates success in using the LLM as a formalizer to generate a formal representation of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Cassie Huang , Li Zhang

Discovering the symbols and rules that can be used in long-horizon planning from a robot's unsupervised exploration of its environment and continuous sensorimotor experience is a challenging task. The previous studies proposed learning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Alper Ahmetoglu , Erhan Oztop , Emre Ugur

In real-world applications, the ability to reason about incomplete knowledge, sensing, temporal notions, and numeric constraints is vital. While several AI planners are capable of dealing with some of these requirements, they are mostly…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Yaniel Carreno , Yvan Petillot , Ronald P. A. Petrick

Planning is a pivotal ability of any intelligent system being developed for real-world applications. AI planning is concerned with researching and developing planning systems that automatically compute plans that satisfy some user…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Ebaa Alnazer , Ilche Georgievski

In recent years research in the planning community has moved increasingly toward s application of planners to realistic problems involving both time and many typ es of resources. For example, interest in planning demonstrated by the space…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-06-24 M. Fox , D. Long

We present an integrated Task-Motion Planning framework for robot navigation in belief space. Autonomous robots operating in real world complex scenarios require planning in the discrete (task) space and the continuous (motion) space. To…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-08-28 Antony Thomas , Sunny Amatya , Fulvio Mastrogiovanni , Marco Baglietto

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable zero-shot generalization abilities: state-of-the-art chatbots can provide plausible answers to many common questions that arise in daily life. However, so far, LLMs cannot reliably…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Bo Liu , Yuqian Jiang , Xiaohan Zhang , Qiang Liu , Shiqi Zhang , Joydeep Biswas , Peter Stone