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Symbolic State Space Optimization for Long Horizon Mobile Manipulation Planning

Xiaohan Zhang*

Yifeng Zhu*

Yan Ding*

Yuqian Jiang*

Yuke Zhu*

Peter Stone

Shiqi Zhang*

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IROS 2023

2023

Abstract

In existing task and motion planning (TAMP) research, it is a common assumption that experts manually specify the state space for task-level planning. A well-developed state space enables the desirable distribution of limited computational resources between task planning and motion planning. However, developing such task-level state spaces can be non-trivial in practice. In this paper, we consider a long horizon mobile manipulation domain including repeated navigation and manipulation. We propose Symbolic State Space Optimization (S3O) for computing a set of abstracted locations and their 2D geometric groundings for generating task-motion plans in such domains. Our approach has been extensively evaluated in simulation and demonstrated on a real mobile manipulator working on clearing up dining tables. Results show the superiority of the proposed method over TAMP baselines in task completion rate and execution time.

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