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Task and Skill Planning: Hierarchical Robot Planning with Black-Box Skills

arXiv:2504.17901v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Task and motion planning (TAMP) is a well-established approach for solving long-horizon robot planning problems. Although TAMP methods have historically assumed that each task-level robot action, or skill, can be reduced to kinematic motion planning, recent work has explored integrating closed-loop controllers and learned skills into TAMP-style systems. Our approach integrates pre-existing, heterogeneous robot skills--including learned, force-

Published July 30, 2026 · Category: Robotics

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arXiv:2504.17901v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Task and motion planning (TAMP) is a well-established approach for solving long-horizon robot planning problems. Although TAMP methods have historically assumed that each task-level robot action, or skill, can be reduced to kinematic motion planning, recent work has explored integrating closed-loop controllers and learned skills into TAMP-style systems. Our approach integrates pre-existing, heterogeneous robot skills--including learned, force-controlled, and black-box policies--into a hierarchical planner while preserving the object-centric failure reasoning of typical TAMP solvers. We leverage Composable Interaction Primitives (CIPs) to synthesize head and tail motion plans bridging consecutive skills, facilitating both planning-time refinement and execution-time adjustment. We validate our Task and Skill Planning (TASP) approach through real-world experiments on a bimanual manipulator and a mobile manipulator, demonstrating that CIPs enable diverse robots to combine heterogeneous skills to solve complex, long-horizon tasks, including multi-room mobile manipulation problems with non-monotonic task structure.

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Originally published at arxiv.org.

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