“…Planning problems in which the goal is not just to move the robot without collision but also to operate on the objects in the world have been addressed from the earliest days of motion planning to this day, for example [28,27,40,2,1,33,35,36,38,17,3,23,15,10]. In recent years, there have been a number of approaches to integrating discrete task planning and continuous motion planning [5,32,21,12,13,31,7,37], aimed at increasing the capabilities of autonomous robots.…”