MoveIt Task Constructor
- Software
- Robot arms and industry
- Library
A framework for defining and planning multi-step robot actions by composing subtasks from MoveIt planning stages. It is built on MoveIt and passes solutions between stages through the PlanningScene.
Made by MoveIt.
Source on GitHub: github.com/moveit/moveit_task_constructor (opens in a new tab). Facts read at commit f527048 (opens in a new tab).
Licenses
- Code
- BSD-3-Clause (opens in a new tab)
Read by Robotheca from LICENSE.txt (opens in a new tab) (BSD-3-Clause) at commit f527048 (opens in a new tab), on 16 Oct 2026.
- Commercial use
- Yes
What it does
- Lets you define actions made of interdependent subtasks, organized hierarchically.
- Solves each subproblem with MoveIt planning capabilities in black-box planning stages.
- Passes solution hypotheses between stages through a common MoveIt PlanningScene interface.
- Supports sequential and parallel compositions of stages using containers.
- Includes a tutorial for a basic pick-and-place pipeline in the MoveIt tutorials.
- Roadmap includes replacing MoveIt's old pick-and-place pipeline and adding planned execution, parallel planning and iterative improvement.
Written by Robotheca from the project's README (opens in a new tab) at commit f527048.
Getting started
- Difficulty
- Advanced
- How to start
- The project's website (opens in a new tab)
Maintenance
- Status
- Active: a commit in the last 90 days
- Newest commit
- 10 Sept 2026 on ros2
- Latest release
- None published on GitHub
Checked on GitHub on 16 Oct 2026.
Links
Robots on Robotheca that use it
No robot on Robotheca is linked to it yet. Links come from a robot's robot.yaml, from its dependency files read as text, or from Robotheca's editors.
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