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This research addresses a critical bottleneck in AI-driven robotics by optimizing the integration of Large Language Models with efficient online scheduling algorithms. By invoking an LLM only once to generate task dependencies rather than repeatedly during execution, OSDAG significantly reduces latency and increases parallelism for multi-robot systems without sacrificing accuracy. The study demonstrates that combining high-level semantic reasoning with constraint-aware graph representations is essential for scaling collaborative robotics applications beyond current sequential limitations.
OSDAG: Online Scheduling for Efficient Multi-Robot Collaboration
arXiv:2606.15255v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Coordinating heterogeneous multi-robot systems (MRS) for complex, long-horizon tasks requires both flexible high-level reasoning and efficient low-level scheduling. Existing LLM-based approaches address the reasoning side but introduce two critical bottlenecks: (1) repeated LLM inference during execution, which inflates latency with agent count, and (2) offline, pre-committed scheduling, which forces robots to idle while waiting for sequentially ordered predecessors even when independent work is available. This paper presents OSDAG, a novel framework that integrates LLM-based task reasoning with Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) representation and constraint-aware online scheduling. The LLM is invoked once to decompose a natural-language instruction into a dependency-annotated task graph, and a lightweight online scheduler then allocates ready tasks to idle agents in real time. The DAG representation encodes both precedence and resource constraints, ensuring correctness while exposing all available parallelism. Experiments across five benchmark scenarios demonstrate that OSDAG achieves 5-15x faster reasoning time compared to dialogue-based methods, reduces makespan by up to 38% over sequential baselines, and maintains competitive success rates. Both simulation and real-world experiments on dual-arm manipulation tasks validate the effectiveness and practicality of the proposed approach for efficient multi-robot coordination. The website and resources are available at http://thanhnguyencanh.github.io/LLM_DAG4MultiRobot
Abstract:Coordinating heterogeneous multi-robot systems (MRS) for complex, long-horizon tasks requires both flexible high-level reasoning and efficient low-level scheduling. Existing LLM-based approaches address the reasoning side but introduce two critical bottlenecks: (1) repeated LLM inference during execution, which inflates latency with agent count, and (2) offline, pre-committed scheduling, which forces robots to idle while waiting for sequentially ordered predecessors even when independent work is available. This paper presents OSDAG, a novel framework that integrates LLM-based task reasoning with Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) representation and constraint-aware online scheduling. The LLM is invoked once to decompose a natural-language instruction into a dependency-annotated task graph, and a lightweight online scheduler then allocates ready tasks to idle agents in real time. The DAG representation encodes both precedence and resource constraints, ensuring correctness while exposing all available parallelism. Experiments across five benchmark scenarios demonstrate that OSDAG achieves 5-15x faster reasoning time compared to dialogue-based methods, reduces makespan by up to 38% over sequential baselines, and maintains competitive success rates. Both simulation and real-world experiments on dual-arm manipulation tasks validate the effectiveness and practicality of the proposed approach for efficient multi-robot coordination. The website and resources are available at this http URL
Robotics (cs.RO)
arXiv:2606.15255 [cs.RO]
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