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Recent works have shown great potentials of Large Language Models (LLMs) in robot task and motion planning (TAMP). Current LLM approaches generate text- or code-based reasoning chains with sub-goals and action plans. However, they do not…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Yongchao Chen , Yilun Hao , Yang Zhang , Chuchu Fan

In recent years, research in the area of human-robot interaction has focused on developing robots capable of understanding complex human instructions and performing tasks in dynamic and diverse environments. These systems have a wide range…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-25 Simone Colombani , Dimitri Ognibene , Giuseppe Boccignone

The high cost of real-world data for robotics Reinforcement Learning (RL) leads to the wide usage of simulators. Despite extensive work on building better dynamics models for simulators to match with the real world, there is another,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Linji Wang , Zifan Xu , Peter Stone , Xuesu Xiao

Task planning is an important component of traditional robotics systems enabling robots to compose fine grained skills to perform more complex tasks. Recent work building systems for translating natural language to executable actions for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Mert İnan , Aishwarya Padmakumar , Spandana Gella , Patrick Lange , Dilek Hakkani-Tur

Large language models (LLMs) have emerged as the dominant paradigm for robotic task planning using natural language instructions. However, trained on general internet data, LLMs are not inherently aligned with the embodiment, skill sets,…

Robotic manipulation faces a significant challenge in generalizing across unseen objects, environments and tasks specified by diverse language instructions. To improve generalization capabilities, recent research has incorporated large…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Shizhe Chen , Ricardo Garcia , Paul Pacaud , Cordelia Schmid

This paper proposes a new reactive temporal logic planning algorithm for multiple robots that operate in environments with unknown geometry modeled using occupancy grid maps. The robots are equipped with individual sensors that allow them…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Yiannis Kantaros , Matthew Malencia , George J. Pappas

Mobile and general-purpose robots increasingly support our everyday life, requiring dependable robotics control software. Creating such software mainly amounts to implementing their complex behaviors known as missions. Recognizing the need,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-01-09 Claudio Menghi , Christos Tsigkanos , Patrizio Pelliccione , Carlo Ghezzi , Thorsten Berger

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

Large Language Models (LLMs) trained using massive text datasets have recently shown promise in generating action plans for robotic agents from high level text queries. However, these models typically do not consider the robot's…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Maitrey Gramopadhye , Daniel Szafir

In this paper, we introduce a multi-robot system that integrates mapping, localization, and task and motion planning (TAMP) enabled by 3D scene graphs to execute complex instructions expressed in natural language. Our system builds a shared…

Grounding the common-sense reasoning of Large Language Models (LLMs) in physical domains remains a pivotal yet unsolved problem for embodied AI. Whereas prior works have focused on leveraging LLMs directly for planning in symbolic spaces,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Yanwei Wang , Tsun-Hsuan Wang , Jiayuan Mao , Michael Hagenow , Julie Shah

Robotics researchers increasingly leverage large language models (LLM) in robotics systems, using them as interfaces to receive task commands, generate task plans, form team coalitions, and allocate tasks among multi-robot and human agents.…

Programming robots is a complicated and time-consuming task. A robot is essentially a real-time, distributed embedded system. Often, control and communication paths within the system are tightly coupled to the actual physical configuration…

Robotics · Computer Science 2014-01-08 Thomas Buchmann , Johannes Baumgartl , Dominik Henrich , Bernhard Westfechtel

Contact-rich tasks pose significant challenges for robotic systems due to inherent uncertainty, complex dynamics, and the high risk of damage during interaction. Recent advances in learning-based control have shown great potential in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Heng Zhang , Rui Dai , Gokhan Solak , Pokuang Zhou , Yu She , Arash Ajoudani

Despite significant advancements in large language models (LLMs) that enhance robot agents' understanding and execution of natural language (NL) commands, ensuring the agents adhere to user-specified constraints remains challenging,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Yi Wu , Zikang Xiong , Yiran Hu , Shreyash S. Iyengar , Nan Jiang , Aniket Bera , Lin Tan , Suresh Jagannathan

A robot in a human-centric environment needs to account for the human's intent and future motion in its task and motion planning to ensure safe and effective operation. This requires symbolic reasoning about probable future actions and the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Moritz A. Graule , Volkan Isler

Autonomous robots need to be able to handle uncertainties when deployed in the real world. For the robot to be able to robustly work in such an environment, it needs to be able to adapt both its architecture as well as its task plan.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Jeroen M. Zwanepol , Gustavo Rezende Silva , Carlos Hernández Corbato

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have enabled the automatic generation of executable code for task planning and control in embodied agents such as robots, demonstrating the potential of LLM-based embodied intelligence.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Sanghyun Ahn , Wonje Choi , Junyong Lee , Jinwoo Park , Honguk Woo

In the pursuit of fully autonomous robotic systems capable of taking over tasks traditionally performed by humans, the complexity of open-world environments poses a considerable challenge. Addressing this imperative, this study contributes…