From Dialogue to Execution: Mixture-of-Agents Assisted Interactive Planning for Behavior Tree-Based Long-Horizon Robot Execution

Interactive task planning with large language models (LLMs) enables robots to generate high-level action plans from natural language instructions. However, in long-horizon tasks, such approaches often require many questions, increasing user burden. Moreover, flat plan representations become difficult to manage as task complexity grows. We propose a framework that integrates Mixture-of-Agents (MoA)-based proxy answering into interactive planning and generates Behavior Trees (BTs) for structured long-term execution. The MoA consists of multiple LLM-based expert agents that answer general or domain-specific questions when possible, reducing unnecessary human intervention. The resulting BT hierarchically represents task logic and enables retry mechanisms and dynamic switching among multiple robot policies. Experiments on cocktail-making tasks show that the proposed method reduces human response requirements by approximately 27% while maintaining structural and semantic similarity to fully human-answered BTs. Real-robot experiments on a smoothie-making task further demonstrate successful long-horizon execution with adaptive policy switching and recovery from action failures. These results indicate that MoA-assisted interactive planning improves dialogue efficiency while preserving execution quality in real-world robotic tasks.

Interactively Robot Action Planning with Uncertainty Analysis and Active Questioning by Large Language Model

The application of the Large Language Model (LLM) to robot action planning has been actively studied. The instructions given to the LLM by natural language may include ambiguity and lack of information depending on the task context. It is possible to adjust the output of LLM by making the instruction input more detailed; however, the design cost is high. In this paper, we propose the interactive robot action planning method that allows the LLM to analyze and gather missing information by asking questions to humans. The method can minimize the design cost of generating precise robot instructions. We demonstrated the effectiveness of our method through concrete examples in cooking tasks. However, our experiments also revealed challenges in robot action planning with LLM, such as asking unimportant questions and assuming crucial information without asking. Shedding light on these issues provides valuable insights for future research on utilizing LLM for robotics.