# MoveIt Task Constructor Framework The Task Constructor framework provides a flexible and transparent way to define and plan actions that consist of multiple interdependent subtasks. It draws on the planning capabilities of [MoveIt](https://moveit.ros.org/) to solve individual subproblems in black-box *planning stages*. A common interface, based on MoveIt's PlanningScene is used to pass solution hypotheses between stages. The framework enables the hierarchical organization of basic stages using *containers*, allowing for sequential as well as parallel compositions. ## Video [![Video associated with ICRA 2019 paper](https://img.youtube.com/vi/fCORKVYsdDI/0.jpg )](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCORKVYsdDI) ## Tutorial We provide a tutorial for a pick-and-place pipeline without bells & whistles [as part of the MoveIt tutorials](https://ros-planning.github.io/moveit_tutorials/doc/moveit_task_constructor/moveit_task_constructor_tutorial.html). ## Roadmap **Feedback, reports and contributions are very welcome.** The current roadmap is to replace MoveIt's old pick&place pipeline and provide a *transparent mechanism* to enable and debug complex motion sequences. Further planned features include - Entwined planning and execution for early execution, monitoring and code hooks - Subsolution blending - Parallel planning - Iterative solution improvement Ideas and requests for other interesting/useful features are welcome. ## Citation If you use this framework in your project, please cite the associated paper: Michael Görner*, Robert Haschke*, Helge Ritter, and Jianwei Zhang, MoveIt! Task Constructor for Task-Level Motion Planning, International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA 2019, Montreal, Canada. [[DOI]](https://doi.org/10.1109/ICRA.2019.8793898) [[PDF]](https://pub.uni-bielefeld.de/download/2918864/2933599/paper.pdf). ```plain @inproceedings{goerner2019mtc, title={{MoveIt! Task Constructor for Task-Level Motion Planning}}, author={Görner, Michael* and Haschke, Robert* and Ritter, Helge and Zhang, Jianwei}, booktitle={IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)}, year={2019} } ```