Synthesis for robots: Guarantees and feedback for robot behavior

H Kress-Gazit, M Lahijanian… - Annual Review of Control …, 2018 - annualreviews.org
Robot control for tasks such as moving around obstacles or grasping objects has advanced
significantly in the last few decades. However, controlling robots to perform complex tasks is …

Improving robot controller transparency through autonomous policy explanation

B Hayes, JA Shah - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM/IEEE international …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
Shared expectations and mutual understanding are critical facets of teamwork. Achieving
these in human-robot collaborative contexts can be especially challenging, as humans and …

Multi-robot planning with conflicts and synergies

Y Jiang, H Yedidsion, S Zhang, G Sharon, P Stone - Autonomous Robots, 2019 - Springer
Multi-robot planning (mrp) aims at computing plans, each in the form of a sequence of
actions, for a team of robots to achieve their individual goals, while minimizing overall cost …

[PDF][PDF] Multirobot Symbolic Planning under Temporal Uncertainty.

S Zhang, Y Jiang, G Sharon, P Stone - AAMAS, 2017 - cs.utexas.edu
Multirobot symbolic planning (MSP) aims at computing plans, each in the form of a
sequence of actions, for a team of robots to achieve their individual goals while minimizing …

Auctioning over probabilistic options for temporal logic-based multi-robot cooperation under uncertainty

P Schillinger, M Bürger… - 2018 IEEE International …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Coordinating a team of robots to fulfill a common task is still a demanding problem. This is
even more the case when considering uncertainty in the environment, as well as temporal …

Synthesizing cooperative reactive mission plans

R Ehlers, R Könighofer, R Bloem - 2015 IEEE/RSJ International …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
By performing synthesis from formal high-level mission specifications, we can obtain robot
controllers that are guaranteed to operate correctly under the specified environment …

Resilient, provably-correct, and high-level robot behaviors

KW Wong, R Ehlers… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Whether robot controllers are manually designed or synthesized from high-level task
specifications, assumptions about the environment need to be made, which can involve …

Need-based coordination for decentralized high-level robot control

KW Wong, H Kress-Gazit - 2016 IEEE/RSJ International …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We consider multiple robots operating in a shared workspace, each given a high-level task
specification in the form of Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) formulas. The robots have no a …

The challenges in specifying and explaining synthesized implementations of reactive systems

H Kress-Gazit, H Torfah - arXiv preprint arXiv:1901.00591, 2019 - arxiv.org
In formal synthesis of reactive systems an implementation of a system is automatically
constructed from its formal specification. The great advantage of synthesis is that the …

A constraint-based approach for hybrid reasoning in robotics

M Mansouri - 2016 - diva-portal.org
The quest of AI and Robotics researchers to realize fully AI-driven integrated robotic systems
has not yet led to such realizations, in spite of great attainments in both research areas. This …