Mission Specification

Mission specification in robotics and autonomous systems focuses on defining tasks and constraints for robots to achieve desired outcomes, encompassing everything from high-level natural language instructions to precise formal logic. Current research emphasizes robust methods for handling incomplete or ambiguous specifications, often employing deep reinforcement learning, large language models, and hierarchical planning architectures to enable adaptable and safe execution in dynamic environments. This field is crucial for advancing the capabilities of autonomous systems across diverse applications, including space exploration, disaster response, and industrial automation, by enabling more complex and reliable robot behaviors.