arxivcs.ROcs.AI2026-07-22
Courteous Anticipation: Improving Long-Lived Task Planning in Persistent Shared Environments
Md Ridwan Hossain Talukder, Roshan Dhakal, Elizabeth Phillips, Gregory J. Stein
We consider a task planning scenario in which robots sharing a persistent environment are assigned tasks one at a time from a held-out sequence. Standard task planners, lacking foresight of future tasks and inconsiderate of others' constraints, solve each task in isolation, leavi…