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Active perception enables robots to dynamically gather information by adjusting their viewpoints, a crucial capability for interacting with complex, partially observable environments. In this paper, we present AP-VLM, a novel framework that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Venkatesh Sripada , Samuel Carter , Frank Guerin , Amir Ghalamzan

Vision-Language Models (VLM) can generate plausible high-level plans when prompted with a goal, the context, an image of the scene, and any planning constraints. However, there is no guarantee that the predicted actions are geometrically…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Zhutian Yang , Caelan Garrett , Dieter Fox , Tomás Lozano-Pérez , Leslie Pack Kaelbling

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

Task and motion planning represents a powerful set of hybrid planning methods that combine reasoning over discrete task domains and continuous motion generation. Traditional reasoning necessitates task domain models and enough information…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Tianyang Pan , Rahul Shome , Lydia E. Kavraki

Understanding manipulation scenarios allows intelligent robots to plan for appropriate actions to complete a manipulation task successfully. It is essential for intelligent robots to semantically interpret manipulation knowledge by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Chen Jiang , Martin Jagersand

Planning-based reinforcement learning has shown strong performance in tasks in discrete and low-dimensional continuous action spaces. However, planning usually brings significant computational overhead for decision-making, and scaling such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-25 Zhengyao Jiang , Tianjun Zhang , Michael Janner , Yueying Li , Tim Rocktäschel , Edward Grefenstette , Yuandong Tian

Intelligent interaction with the real world requires robotic agents to jointly reason over high-level plans and low-level controls. Task and motion planning (TAMP) addresses this by combining symbolic planning and continuous trajectory…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Denis Shcherba , Eckart Cobo-Briesewitz , Cornelius V. Braun , Marc Toussaint

This paper presents a task and motion planning (TAMP) framework for a robotic manipulator in order to retrieve a target object from clutter. We consider a configuration of objects in a confined space with a high density so no collision-free…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-26 Changjoo Nam , Jinhwi Lee , Sang Hun Cheong , Brian Y. Cho , ChangHwan Kim

Most common tasks for robots in dynamic spaces require that the environment is regularly and actively perceived, with many of them explicitly requiring objects or persons to be within view, i.e., for monitoring or safety. However, solving…

This work presents an optimization-based task and motion planning (TAMP) framework that unifies planning for locomotion and manipulation through a shared representation of contact modes. We define symbolic actions as contact mode changes,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Michal Ciebielski , Victor Dhédin , Majid Khadiv

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

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-10-28 Antony Thomas , Fulvio Mastrogiovanni , Marco Baglietto

This study proposes a hierarchically integrated framework for safe task and motion planning (TAMP) of bipedal locomotion in a partially observable environment with dynamic obstacles and uneven terrain. The high-level task planner employs…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-09 Abdulaziz Shamsah , Zhaoyuan Gu , Jonas Warnke , Seth Hutchinson , Ye Zhao

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

This paper addresses the problem of multi-robot coordination for complex manipulation task sequences. We present a vision-driven task-and-motion planning (TAMP) framework for a real dual-agent platform that integrates task decomposition and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Abdelaziz Shaarawy , Cansu Erdogan , Rustam Stolkin , Alireza Rastegarpanah

Intelligent robots need to generate and execute plans. In order to deal with the complexity of real environments, planning makes some assumptions about the world. When executing plans, the assumptions are usually not met. Most works have…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Daniel Borrajo , Manuela Veloso

Traditional control and planning for robotic manipulation heavily rely on precise physical models and predefined action sequences. While effective in structured environments, such approaches often fail in real-world scenarios due to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Jin Wang , Weijie Wang , Boyuan Deng , Heng Zhang , Rui Dai , Nikos Tsagarakis

Loco-manipulation planning skills are pivotal for expanding the utility of robots in everyday environments. These skills can be assessed based on a system's ability to coordinate complex holistic movements and multiple contact interactions…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Jean-Pierre Sleiman , Farbod Farshidian , Marco Hutter

We consider the human-aware task planning problem where a human-robot team is given a shared task with a known objective to achieve. Recent approaches tackle it by modeling it as a team of independent, rational agents, where the robot plans…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Anthony Favier , Shashank Shekhar , Rachid Alami

We present the Latent Adaptive Planner (LAP), a trajectory-level latent-variable policy for dynamic nonprehensile manipulation (e.g., box catching) that formulates planning as inference in a low-dimensional latent space and is learned…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Donghun Noh , Deqian Kong , Minglu Zhao , Andrew Lizarraga , Jianwen Xie , Ying Nian Wu , Dennis Hong

Task and motion planning (TAMP) frameworks address long and complex planning problems by integrating high-level task planners with low-level motion planners. However, existing TAMP methods rely heavily on the manual design of planning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Jinbang Huang , Allen Tao , Rozilyn Marco , Miroslav Bogdanovic , Jonathan Kelly , Florian Shkurti