POrTAL: Plan-Orchestrated Tree Assembly for Lookahead

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Main Authors: Conway, Evan, Porfirio, David, Chan, David, Roberts, Mark, Hiatt, Laura M.
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Published: 2025
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author Conway, Evan
Porfirio, David
Chan, David
Roberts, Mark
Hiatt, Laura M.
author_facet Conway, Evan
Porfirio, David
Chan, David
Roberts, Mark
Hiatt, Laura M.
contents When tasking robots in partially observable environments, these robots must efficiently and robustly plan to achieve task goals under uncertainty. Although many probabilistic planning algorithms exist for this purpose, these algorithms can be inefficient if executed with the robot's limited computational resources, or may produce policies that take more steps than expected to achieve the goal. We therefore created a new, lightweight, probabilistic planning algorithm, Plan-Orchestrated Tree Assembly for Lookahead (POrTAL), that combines the strengths of two baseline planning algorithms, FF-Replan and POMCP. We demonstrate that POrTAL is an anytime algorithm that generally outperforms these baselines in terms of the final executed plan length given bounded computation time, especially for problems with only moderate levels of uncertainty.
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spellingShingle POrTAL: Plan-Orchestrated Tree Assembly for Lookahead
Conway, Evan
Porfirio, David
Chan, David
Roberts, Mark
Hiatt, Laura M.
Robotics
Artificial Intelligence
When tasking robots in partially observable environments, these robots must efficiently and robustly plan to achieve task goals under uncertainty. Although many probabilistic planning algorithms exist for this purpose, these algorithms can be inefficient if executed with the robot's limited computational resources, or may produce policies that take more steps than expected to achieve the goal. We therefore created a new, lightweight, probabilistic planning algorithm, Plan-Orchestrated Tree Assembly for Lookahead (POrTAL), that combines the strengths of two baseline planning algorithms, FF-Replan and POMCP. We demonstrate that POrTAL is an anytime algorithm that generally outperforms these baselines in terms of the final executed plan length given bounded computation time, especially for problems with only moderate levels of uncertainty.
title POrTAL: Plan-Orchestrated Tree Assembly for Lookahead
topic Robotics
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.06002