arxivcs.RO2026-07-07
Hypothesis-driven Model Expansion under Uncertainty for Open-World Robot Planning
Anxing Xiao, Hanbo Zhang, Tianrun Hu, David Hsu
We consider an open-world planning setting in which service robots must operate in unknown environments with incomplete knowledge of objects and actions. Traditional closed-world approaches with pre-programmed knowledge bases fail when robots encounter unexpected situations and t…