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Planning II

Planning II. GraphPlan and Russell and Norvig: ch.12 CMSC421 – Fall 2006. based on material from Jim Blythe, JC Latombe, Marie desJardins and Daphne Koller. Real-world planning domains.

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Planning II

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  1. Planning II GraphPlan and Russell and Norvig: ch.12 CMSC421 – Fall 2006 based on material from Jim Blythe, JC Latombe, Marie desJardins and Daphne Koller

  2. Real-world planning domains • Real-world domains are complex and don’t satisfy the assumptions of STRIPS or partial-order planning methods • Some of the characteristics we may need to deal with: • Modeling and reasoning about resources • Representing and reasoning about time • Planning at different levels of abstractions • Conditional outcomes of actions • Uncertain outcomes of actions • Exogenous events • Incremental plan development • Dynamic real-time replanning

  3. Planning vs. scheduling • Planning: given one or more goal, generate a sequence of actions to achieve the goal(s) • Scheduling: given a set of actions and constraints, allocate resources and assign times to the actions so that no constraints are violated • Traditionally, planning is done with specialized logical reasoning methods • Traditionally, scheduling is done with constraint satisfaction, linear programming, or OR methods • However, planning and scheduling are closely interrelated and can’t always be separated

  4. Hierarchical decomposition • Hierarchical decomposition, or hierarchical task network (HTN) planning, uses abstract operators to incrementally decompose a planning problem from a high-level goal statement to a primitive plan network • Primitive operators represent actions that are executable, and can appear in the final plan • Non-primitive operators represent goals (equivalently, abstract actions) that require further decomposition (or operationalization) to be executed • There is no “right” set of primitive actions: One agent’s goals are another agent’s actions!

  5. HTN operator: Example OPERATOR decompose PURPOSE: Construction CONSTRAINTS: Length (Frame) <= Length (Foundation), Strength (Foundation) > Wt(Frame) + Wt(Roof) + Wt(Walls) + Wt(Interior) + Wt(Contents) PLOT: Build (Foundation) Build (Frame) PARALLEL Build (Roof) Build (Walls) END PARALLEL Build (Interior)

  6. HTN planning: example

  7. Increasing expressivity • Conditional effects • Instead of having different operators for different conditions, use a single operator with conditional effects • Move (block1, from, to) and MoveToTable (block1, from) collapse into one Move (block1, from, to): • Op(ACTION: Move(block1, from, to),PRECOND: On (block1, from) ^ Clear (block1) ^ Clear (to)EFFECT: On (block1, to) ^ Clear (from) ^ ~On(block1, from) ^ ~Clear(to) when to<>Table • Negated and disjunctive goals • Universally quantified preconditions and effects

  8. Reasoning about resources • Introduce numeric variables that can be used as measures • These variables represent resource quantities, and change over the course of the plan • Certain actions may produce (increase the quantity of) resources • Other actions may consume (decrease the quantity of) resources • More generally, may want different types of resources • Continuous vs. discrete • Sharable vs. nonsharable • Reusable vs. consumable vs. self-replenishing

  9. Applications of Planning • Military operations • Construction tasks • Machining tasks • Mechanical assembly • Design of experiments in genetics • Command sequences for satellite Most applied systems use extended representation languages, nonlinear planning techniques, and domain-specificheuristics

  10. Summary: Practical Planning • More expressive representations • Hierarchical Planning • Exploit Abstractions • Mix of scheduling and Planning

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