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Signal Temporal Logic (STL) enables formal specification of complex spatiotemporal constraints for robotic task planning. However, synthesizing long-horizon continuous control trajectories from complex STL specifications is fundamentally…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Hongrui Zheng , Zirui Zang , Ahmad Amine , Cristian Ioan Vasile , Rahul Mangharam

In the field of control engineering, the connection between Signal Temporal Logic (STL) and time-varying Control Barrier Functions (CBF) has attracted considerable attention. CBFs have demonstrated notable success in ensuring the safety of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Andrea Ruo , Lorenzo Sabattini , Valeria Villani

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

Motion planning for autonomous vehicles often requires satisfying multiple conditionally conflicting specifications. In situations where not all specifications can be met simultaneously, minimum-violation motion planning maintains system…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Patrick Halder , Lothar Kiltz , Hannes Homburger , Johannes Reuter , Matthias Althoff

A fundamental challenge in multi-robot motion planning is achieving sufficient coordination to avoid inter-robot conflicts without incurring the large computational expense of searching the joint configuration space of the robot group. In…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Isaac Ngui , Courtney McBeth , James D. Motes , Marco Morales , Nancy M. Amato

This paper considers robot motion planning under temporal logic constraints in probabilistic maps obtained by semantic simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM). The uncertainty in a map distribution presents a great challenge for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Jie Fu , Nikolay Atanasov , Ufuk Topcu , George J. Pappas

Robust motion planning is a well-studied problem in the robotics literature, yet current algorithms struggle to operate scalably and safely in the presence of other moving agents, such as humans. This paper introduces a novel framework for…

Techniques based on Reinforcement Learning (RL) are increasingly being used to design control policies for robotic systems. RL fundamentally relies on state-based reward functions to encode desired behavior of the robot and bad reward…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-11 Parv Kapoor , Anand Balakrishnan , Jyotirmoy V. Deshmukh

A framework for computing feasible and constrained trajectories for a fleet of quad-rotors leveraging on Signal Temporal Logic (STL) specifications for power line inspection tasks is proposed in this paper. The planner allows the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Giuseppe Silano , Tomas Baca , Robert Penicka , Davide Liuzza , Martin Saska

Autonomous systems must solve motion planning problems subject to increasingly complex, time-sensitive, and uncertain missions. These problems often involve high-level task specifications, such as temporal logic or chance constraints, which…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-28 Junyang Cai , Weimin Huang , Brendan Long , Matthew Cleaveland , Jyotirmoy V. Deshmukh , Lars Lindemann , Bistra Dilkina

Safe and efficient co-planning of multiple robots in pedestrian participation environments is promising for applications. In this work, a novel multi-robot social-aware efficient cooperative planner that on the basis of off-policy…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Zichen He , Chunwei Song , Lu Dong

Ensuring safety and meeting temporal specifications are critical challenges for long-term robotic tasks. Signal temporal logic (STL) has been widely used to systematically and rigorously specify these requirements. However, traditional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Yue Meng , Chuchu Fan

This paper investigates the planning and control problems for multi-robot systems under linear temporal logic (LTL) specifications. In contrast to most of existing literature, which presumes a static and known environment, our study focuses…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Pian Yu , Gianmarco Fedeli , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

In this paper, we present Stratified Topological Autonomy for Long-Range Coordination (STALC), a hierarchical planning approach for multi-robot coordination in real-world environments with significant inter-robot spatial and temporal…

Path planning for a robot is one of the major problems in the area of robotics. When a robot is given a task in the form of a Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) specification such that the task needs to be carried out repetitively, we want the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-05 Priya Purohit , Indranil Saha

Multi-robot motion planning (MRMP) is the problem of finding collision-free paths for a set of robots in a continuous state space. The difficulty of MRMP increases with the number of robots and is exacerbated in environments with narrow…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Courtney McBeth , James Motes , Diane Uwacu , Marco Morales , Nancy M. Amato

Signal temporal logic (STL) is a powerful tool for describing complex behaviors for dynamical systems. Among many approaches, the control problem for systems under STL task constraints is well suited for learning-based solutions, because…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-16 Peter Varnai , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

In this work, we investigate task planning for mobile robots under linear temporal logic (LTL) specifications. This problem is particularly challenging when robots navigate in continuous workspaces due to the high computational complexity…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-27 Ruijia Liu , Shaoyuan Li , Xiang Yin

Metric temporal logic (MTL) provides a formal framework for defining time-dependent mission requirements on autonomous vehicles. However, optimizing control decisions subject to these constraints is often computationally expensive. This…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-03 Andrew F. Thompson , Joshua A. Robbins , Jonah J. Glunt , Sean B. Brennan , Herschel C. Pangborn

This work studies the planning problem for robotic systems under both quantifiable and unquantifiable uncertainty. The objective is to enable the robotic systems to optimally fulfill high-level tasks specified by Linear Temporal Logic (LTL)…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Pian Yu , Yong Li , David Parker , Marta Kwiatkowska