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The Planner Destroyed the Token When the Order Broke

SAM-TD compiled temporal constraints into stream-based robot planning without fixing every geometric object in advance.

Published Updated Story ID: mp-2026-08-21-007
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Summary

SAM-TD compiled temporal constraints into stream-based robot planning without fixing every geometric object in advance.

Stream-based task-and-motion planners generate poses, grasps and trajectories during search, which makes conventional temporal-logic compilation difficult. SAM-TD embeds automaton guards in action schemas and shares a validity token across automata so branches violating ordering, invariance or liveness requirements are pruned. The authors demonstrate the approach in three PDDLStream environments and report competitive discrete-benchmark performance; this is planner-level validation, not a real-world safety guarantee.

Why it matters

SAM-TD compiled temporal constraints into stream-based robot planning without fixing every geometric object in advance.

Limits and context

  • The authors demonstrate the approach in three PDDLStream environments and report competitive discrete-benchmark performance; this is planner-level validation, not a real-world safety guarantee.

Key claims

  1. SAM-TD compiled temporal constraints into stream-based robot planning without fixing every geometric object in advance.

    Qualification: The authors demonstrate the approach in three PDDLStream environments and report competitive discrete-benchmark performance; this is planner-level validation, not a real-world safety guarantee.

    Evidence: source-2026-08-21-007

Sources

  1. arXiv preprint 2608.19453arXiv · primary research

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