Lessons learned in applying domain-independent planning to high-speed manufacturing
Minh N. Do, Wheeler Ruml · 2006
Much has been made of the need for academic planning re-search to orient towards real-world applications. In this pa-per, we relate our experience in adapting domain-independent planning techniques to a real industrial problem. We present a simpler formulation of a temporal planning graph-style heuristic, show how to extend it to take resources into ac-count, and evaluate its importance in practice. We also de-rive several general lessons from our experience which might guide researchers looking to increase the relevance of their work or industrial practitioners seeking to apply planning re-search to real problems.