TOWARD A GOAL-BASED MISSION PLANNING CAPABILITY - Using PDDL Based Automated Planners

John Bookless, Glenn Callow

2012

Abstract

This paper proposes a generic goal-based mission planning framework which provides an integration environment to support evaluation of existing planning and task assignment technologies. The framework facilitates planning across a team of heterogeneous assets with a distributed capability for generating plans to collaboratively achieve goals. A human operator assigns a team with a top-level goal which the framework then decomposes into a list of tasks that can either be tackled by an individual asset or collectively by a sub-team of assets with the appropriate capabilities. Each asset can generate individual plans with knowledge of the current world state and a goal state. A selection of candidate planners are investigated using the framework including a Hierarchical Task Network (HTN) Planner for goal decomposition and a Partial Ordered PDDL (Planning Domain Definition Language) Planner for action-based plan generation. The developed framework is applied to a search-and-rescue scenario requiring a team of UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) to search a specified area of operation.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Bookless J. and Callow G. (2012). TOWARD A GOAL-BASED MISSION PLANNING CAPABILITY - Using PDDL Based Automated Planners . In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART, ISBN 978-989-8425-95-9, pages 481-484. DOI: 10.5220/0003718104810484

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icaart12,
author={John Bookless and Glenn Callow},
title={TOWARD A GOAL-BASED MISSION PLANNING CAPABILITY - Using PDDL Based Automated Planners},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART,},
year={2012},
pages={481-484},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003718104810484},
isbn={978-989-8425-95-9},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART,
TI - TOWARD A GOAL-BASED MISSION PLANNING CAPABILITY - Using PDDL Based Automated Planners
SN - 978-989-8425-95-9
AU - Bookless J.
AU - Callow G.
PY - 2012
SP - 481
EP - 484
DO - 10.5220/0003718104810484