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Planning in complex environments requires an agent to efficiently query a world model to find a feasible sequence of actions from start to goal. Recent work has shown that Large Language Models (LLMs), with their rich prior knowledge and…

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Robot end users increasingly require accessible means of specifying tasks for robots to perform. Two common end-user programming paradigms include drag-and-drop interfaces and natural language programming. Although natural language…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-18 David Porfirio , Vincent Hsiao , Morgan Fine-Morris , Leslie Smith , Laura M. Hiatt

In recent years, the rapid advancement of Large Language Models (LLMs) such as the Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT) has attracted increasing attention due to their potential in a variety of practical applications. The application of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Jinzhou Lin , Han Gao , Xuxiang Feng , Rongtao Xu , Changwei Wang , Man Zhang , Li Guo , Shibiao Xu

We propose an architecture for integrating high-level, human-provided safety rules and operator-aligned semantic preferences into autonomous robot navigation in unstructured outdoor environments. In our approach, natural-language rules are…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Kristy Sakano , Kalonji Harrington , Mumu Xu

Effective traffic incident management is essential for ensuring safety, minimizing congestion, and reducing response times in emergency situations. Traditional highway incident management relies heavily on radio room operators, who must…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Matteo Cercola , Nicola Gatti , Pedro Huertas Leyva , Benedetto Carambia , Simone Formentin

In this paper, a method for generating a map from path information described using natural language (textual path) is proposed. In recent years, robotics research mainly focus on vision-and-language navigation (VLN), a navigation task based…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Hideki Deguchi , Kazuki Shibata , Shun Taguchi

Robotic assembly tasks remain an open challenge due to their long horizon nature and complex part relations. Behavior trees (BTs) are increasingly used in robot task planning for their modularity and flexibility, but creating them manually…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Jicong Ao , Fan Wu , Yansong Wu , Abdalla Swikir , Sami Haddadin

As robots become increasingly integrated into open-world, human-centered environments, their ability to interpret natural language instructions and adhere to safety constraints is critical for effective and trustworthy interaction. Existing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Zeyuan Feng , Haimingyue Zhang , Somil Bansal

Designing robotic agents to perform open vocabulary tasks has been the long-standing goal in robotics and AI. Recently, Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved impressive results in creating robotic agents for performing open vocabulary…

Traditional robot navigation systems primarily utilize occupancy grid maps and laser-based sensing technologies, as demonstrated by the popular move_base package in ROS. Unlike robots, humans navigate not only through spatial awareness and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Fujing Xie , Jiajie Zhang , Sören Schwertfeger

Navigating human-filled spaces is crucial for the interactive social robots to support advanced services, such as cooperative carrying, which enables service provision in complex and crowded environments while adapting behavior based on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Weizheng Wang , Ike Obi , Aniket Bera , Byung-Cheol Min

While Large Language Models (LLM) enable non-experts to specify open-world multi-robot tasks, the generated plans often lack kinematic feasibility and are not efficient, especially in long-horizon scenarios. Formal methods like Linear…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Shuyuan Hu , Tao Lin , Kai Ye , Yang Yang , Tianwei Zhang

The intersection of LLMs (Large Language Models) and UAV (Unoccupied Aerial Vehicles) technology represents a promising field of research with the potential to enhance UAV capabilities significantly. This study explores the application of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Abhishek Phadke , Alihan Hadimlioglu , Tianxing Chu , Chandra N Sekharan

Performing complex manipulation tasks in dynamic environments requires efficient Task and Motion Planning (TAMP) approaches that combine high-level symbolic plans with low-level motion control. Advances in Large Language Models (LLMs), such…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Muhayy Ud Din , Jan Rosell , Waseem Akram , Isiah Zaplana , Maximo A Roa , Irfan Hussain

Path planners that can interpret free-form natural language instructions hold promise to automate a wide range of robotics applications. These planners simplify user interactions and enable intuitive control over complex semi-autonomous…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-09-17 William English , Dominic Simon , Sumit Jha , Rickard Ewetz

Several planners have been proposed to compute robot paths that reach desired goal regions while avoiding obstacles. However, these methods fail when all pathways to the goal are blocked. In such cases, the robot must reason about how to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Yuqing Zhang , Yiannis Kantaros

Path planning is a critical component in autonomous drone operations, enabling safe and efficient navigation through complex environments. Recent advances in foundation models, particularly large language models (LLMs) and vision-language…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Jiaping Xiao , Cheng Wen Tsao , Yuhang Zhang , Mir Feroskhan

Effective planning is essential for the success of any task, from organizing a vacation to routing autonomous vehicles and developing corporate strategies. It involves setting goals, formulating plans, and allocating resources to achieve…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Haoming Li , Zhaoliang Chen , Jonathan Zhang , Fei Liu

We present a method for developing navigation policies for multi-robot teams that interpret and follow natural language instructions. We condition these policies on embeddings from pretrained Large Language Models (LLMs), and train them via…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Steven Morad , Ajay Shankar , Jan Blumenkamp , Amanda Prorok

Recent large language models (LLMs) are promising for making decisions in grounded environments. However, LLMs frequently fail in complex decision-making tasks due to the misalignment between the pre-trained knowledge in LLMs and the actual…

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