Online Resynthesis of High-Level Collaborative Tasks for Robots with Changing Capabilities

Abstract

Given a collaborative high-level task and a team of heterogeneous robots and behaviors to satisfy it, this work focuses on the challenge of automatically, at runtime, adjusting the individual robot behaviors such that the task is still satisfied, when robots encounter changes to their abilities--either failures or additional actions they can perform. We consider tasks encoded in LTL^ψand minimize global teaming reassignments (and as a result, local resynthesis) when robots' capabilities change. We also increase the expressivity of LTL^ψby including additional types of constraints on the overall teaming assignment that the user can specify, such as the minimum number of robots required for each assignment. We demonstrate the framework in a simulated warehouse scenario.

Under review in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters