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Main Authors: Erez, Lidor, Shperberg, Shahaf S., Taitler, Ayal
Format: Preprint
Published: 2026
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.12474
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author Erez, Lidor
Shperberg, Shahaf S.
Taitler, Ayal
author_facet Erez, Lidor
Shperberg, Shahaf S.
Taitler, Ayal
contents In many robotic tasks, agents must traverse a sequence of spatial regions to complete a mission. Such problems are inherently mixed discrete-continuous: a high-level action sequence and a physically feasible continuous trajectory. The resulting trajectory and action sequence must also satisfy problem constraints such as deadlines, time windows, and velocity or acceleration limits. While hybrid temporal planners attempt to address this challenge, they typically model motion using linear (first-order) dynamics, which cannot guarantee that the resulting plan respects the robot's true physical constraints. Consequently, even when the high-level action sequence is fixed, producing a dynamically feasible trajectory becomes a bi-level optimization problem. We address this problem via reinforcement learning in continuous space. We define a Markov Decision Process that explicitly incorporates analytical second-order constraints and use it to refine first-order plans generated by a hybrid planner. Our results show that this approach can reliably recover physical feasibility and effectively bridge the gap between a planner's initial first-order trajectory and the dynamics required for real execution.
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spellingShingle From Kinematics to Dynamics: Learning to Refine Hybrid Plans for Physically Feasible Execution
Erez, Lidor
Shperberg, Shahaf S.
Taitler, Ayal
Robotics
Artificial Intelligence
In many robotic tasks, agents must traverse a sequence of spatial regions to complete a mission. Such problems are inherently mixed discrete-continuous: a high-level action sequence and a physically feasible continuous trajectory. The resulting trajectory and action sequence must also satisfy problem constraints such as deadlines, time windows, and velocity or acceleration limits. While hybrid temporal planners attempt to address this challenge, they typically model motion using linear (first-order) dynamics, which cannot guarantee that the resulting plan respects the robot's true physical constraints. Consequently, even when the high-level action sequence is fixed, producing a dynamically feasible trajectory becomes a bi-level optimization problem. We address this problem via reinforcement learning in continuous space. We define a Markov Decision Process that explicitly incorporates analytical second-order constraints and use it to refine first-order plans generated by a hybrid planner. Our results show that this approach can reliably recover physical feasibility and effectively bridge the gap between a planner's initial first-order trajectory and the dynamics required for real execution.
title From Kinematics to Dynamics: Learning to Refine Hybrid Plans for Physically Feasible Execution
topic Robotics
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.12474