ResearchResearch paperRobotics & Embodied AI · Reasoning & Planning1 source · Oct 9, 2026

BT-Agent: Deploying Onboard Robot Agents with Behavior Trees and Multi-Fidelity Evaluation

We propose BT-Agent, an onboard architecture combining LLM-driven task decisions with predefined behavior-tree (BT) skills.

Key points

  • Deploying language-model agents onboard mobile robots requires task reasoning and responsive execution within limited compute and memory.
  • These skills enforce execution conditions and return structured failure feedback.
  • We demonstrate fully onboard operation with a 9B model on a quadruped across five task categories.
  • To compare agent designs efficiently, we introduce a 161-task multi-fidelity benchmark, evaluated in text on all tasks and in Habitat on 39.

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