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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

Timeline-based planning is an approach originally developed in the context of space mission planning and scheduling, where problem domains are modelled as systems made of a number of independent but interacting components, whose behaviour…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-07-26 Nicola Gigante

Complex manipulation tasks require careful integration of symbolic reasoning and motion planning. This problem, commonly referred to as Task and Motion Planning (TAMP), is even more challenging if the workspace is non-static, e.g. due to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Nicola Castaman , Enrico Pagello , Emanuele Menegatti , Alberto Pretto

In many use cases the execution time of tasks is unknown and can be chosen by the designer to increase or decrease the application features depending on the availability of processing capacity. If the application has real-time constraints,…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Enrico Bini

In order to ensure the robust actuation of a plan, execution must be adaptable to unexpected situations in the world and to exogenous events. This is critical in domains in which committing to a wrong ordering of actions can cause the plan…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-23 Oscar Lima , Michael Cashmore , Daniele Magazzeni , Andrea Micheli , Rodrigo Ventura

Capability planning problems are pervasive throughout many areas of human interest with prominent examples found in defense and security. Planning provides a unique context for optimization that has not been explored in great detail and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2009-07-03 James M. Whitacre , Hussein A. Abbass , Ruhul Sarker , Axel Bender , Stephen Baker

We propose a novel planning technique for satisfying tasks specified in temporal logic in partially revealed environments. We define high-level actions derived from the environment and the given task itself, and estimate how each action…

Several works related to spatial crowdsourcing have been proposed in the direction where the task executers are to perform the tasks within the stipulated deadlines. Though the deadlines are set, it may be a practical scenario that majority…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Naren Debnath , Sajal Mukhopadhyay , Fatos Xhafa

We present a task-and-motion planning (TAMP) algorithm robust against a human operator's cooperative or adversarial interventions. Interventions often invalidate the current plan and require replanning on the fly. Replanning can be…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Shen Li , Daehyung Park , Yoonchang Sung , Julie A. Shah , Nicholas Roy

Temporal planning often involves numeric effects that are directly proportional to their action's duration. These include continuous effects, where a numeric variable is subjected to a rate of change while the action is being executed, and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Josef Bajada , Maria Fox , Derek Long

In this work, we consider the problem of planning for temporal logic tasks in large robot environments. When full task compliance is unattainable, we aim to achieve the best possible task satisfaction by integrating user preferences for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Disha Kamale , Xi Yu , Cristian-Ioan Vasile

We introduce a framework for cooperative manipulation, applied on an underactuated manipulation problem. Two stationary robotic manipulators are required to cooperate in order to reposition an object within their shared work space. Control…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Sander De Witte , Tom Lefebvre , Thijs Van Hauwermeiren , Guillaume Crevecoeur

Resolving major societal challenges, such as stagnated economic growth or wasted resources, heavily relies on successful project delivery. However, projects are notoriously hard to deliver successfully, partly due to their interconnected…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-10-18 Christos Ellinas , Naoki Masuda

A queue is required when a service provider is not able to handle jobs arriving over the time. In a highly flexible and dynamic environment, some jobs might demand for faster execution at run-time especially when the resources are limited…

Performance · Computer Science 2015-03-24 Yash Gupta , Kamalakar Karlapalem

Scheduling is a critical part of practical computer systems, and scheduling has also been extensively studied from a theoretical perspective. Unfortunately, there is a gap between theory and practice, as the optimal scheduling policies…

Performance · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Ziv Scully , Mor Harchol-Balter

In the context of real-time planning, this paper investigates the contributions of two enhancements for selecting actions. First, the agenda-driven planning enhancement ranks relevant atomic goals and solves them incrementally in a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-11-02 Damien Pellier , Bruno Bouzy , Marc Métivier

Real-world agentic tasks, unlike synchronous Markov Decision Processes (MDPs), often involve non-blocking actions with variable latencies, creating a fundamental \textit{Temporal Gap} between action initiation and completion. Existing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Yifei She , Ping Zhang , He Liu , Yanmin Jia , Yang Jing , Zijun Liu , Peng Sun , Xiangbin Li , Xiaohe Hu

Motion planning of an autonomous system with high-level specifications has wide applications. However, research of formal languages involving timed temporal logic is still under investigation. Furthermore, many existing results rely on a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Zhiliang Li , Mingyu Cai , Shaoping Xiao , Zhen Kan

Replanning in temporal logic tasks is extremely difficult during the online execution of robots. This study introduces an effective path planner that computes solutions for temporal logic goals and instantly adapts to non-static and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Yizhou Chen , Ruoyu Wang , Xinyi Wang , Ben M. Chen

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