Revisiting active perception

R Bajcsy, Y Aloimonos, JK Tsotsos - Autonomous Robots, 2018 - Springer
Despite the recent successes in robotics, artificial intelligence and computer vision, a
complete artificial agent necessarily must include active perception. A multitude of ideas and …

Temporal-logic-based reactive mission and motion planning

H Kress-Gazit, GE Fainekos… - IEEE transactions on …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper provides a framework to automatically generate a hybrid controller that
guarantees that the robot can achieve its task when a robot model, a class of admissible …

Reinforcement learning for temporal logic control synthesis with probabilistic satisfaction guarantees

M Hasanbeig, Y Kantaros, A Abate… - 2019 IEEE 58th …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present a model-free reinforcement learning algorithm to synthesize control policies that
maximize the probability of satisfying high-level control objectives given as Linear Temporal …

Temporal logic motion planning for dynamic robots

GE Fainekos, A Girard, H Kress-Gazit, GJ Pappas - Automatica, 2009 - Elsevier
In this paper, we address the temporal logic motion planning problem for mobile robots that
are modeled by second order dynamics. Temporal logic specifications can capture the usual …

A fully automated framework for control of linear systems from temporal logic specifications

M Kloetzer, C Belta - IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We consider the following problem: given a linear system and a linear temporal logic (LTL)
formula over a set of linear predicates in its state variables, find a feedback control law with …

A hybrid approach to intricate motion, manipulation and task planning

S Cambon, R Alami, F Gravot - The International Journal of …, 2009 - journals.sagepub.com
We propose a representation and a planning algorithm able to deal with problems
integrating task planning as well as motion and manipulation planning knowledge involving …

Where's waldo? sensor-based temporal logic motion planning

H Kress-Gazit, GE Fainekos… - Proceedings 2007 IEEE …, 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Given a robot model and a class of admissible environments, this paper provides a
framework for automatically and verifiably composing controllers that satisfy high level task …

Automatic deployment of distributed teams of robots from temporal logic motion specifications

M Kloetzer, C Belta - IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present a computational framework for automatic synthesis of decentralized
communication and control strategies for a robotic team from global specifications, which are …

Translating structured english to robot controllers

H Kress-Gazit, GE Fainekos, GJ Pappas - Advanced Robotics, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
Recently, Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) has been successfully applied to high-level task and
motion planning problems for mobile robots. One of the main attributes of LTL is its close …

Formal approach to the deployment of distributed robotic teams

Y Chen, XC Ding, A Stefanescu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present a computational framework for automatic synthesis of control and
communication strategies for a robotic team from task specifications that are given as regular …