Unified Task and Motion Planning using Object-centric Abstractions of Motion Constraints

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Main Authors: Agostini, Alejandro, Piater, Justus
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Published: 2023
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author Agostini, Alejandro
Piater, Justus
author_facet Agostini, Alejandro
Piater, Justus
contents In task and motion planning (TAMP), the ambiguity and underdetermination of abstract descriptions used by task planning methods make it difficult to characterize physical constraints needed to successfully execute a task. The usual approach is to overlook such constraints at task planning level and to implement expensive sub-symbolic geometric reasoning techniques that perform multiple calls on unfeasible actions, plan corrections, and re-planning until a feasible solution is found. We propose an alternative TAMP approach that unifies task and motion planning into a single heuristic search. Our approach is based on an object-centric abstraction of motion constraints that permits leveraging the computational efficiency of off-the-shelf AI heuristic search to yield physically feasible plans. These plans can be directly transformed into object and motion parameters for task execution without the need of intensive sub-symbolic geometric reasoning.
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spellingShingle Unified Task and Motion Planning using Object-centric Abstractions of Motion Constraints
Agostini, Alejandro
Piater, Justus
Robotics
Artificial Intelligence
In task and motion planning (TAMP), the ambiguity and underdetermination of abstract descriptions used by task planning methods make it difficult to characterize physical constraints needed to successfully execute a task. The usual approach is to overlook such constraints at task planning level and to implement expensive sub-symbolic geometric reasoning techniques that perform multiple calls on unfeasible actions, plan corrections, and re-planning until a feasible solution is found. We propose an alternative TAMP approach that unifies task and motion planning into a single heuristic search. Our approach is based on an object-centric abstraction of motion constraints that permits leveraging the computational efficiency of off-the-shelf AI heuristic search to yield physically feasible plans. These plans can be directly transformed into object and motion parameters for task execution without the need of intensive sub-symbolic geometric reasoning.
title Unified Task and Motion Planning using Object-centric Abstractions of Motion Constraints
topic Robotics
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.17605