Using AI Planning Technology for Army small unit operations
Austin Tate, John R. Levine, Peter A. Jarvis, Jeff Dalton · 2000
In this paper, we outline the requirements of a planning and decision aid to support US Army small unit operations in urban terrain and show how AI planning technologies can be exploited in that context. The work is a rare example of a comprehensive use of AI technologies across the whole planning lifecycle, set in a realistic application in which the actual user community set the requirements. The phases involved include: . Domain knowledge elicitation . Rich plan representation and use . Hierarchical Task Network Planning . Detailed constraint management . Goal structure-based plan monitoring . Dynamic issue handling . Plan repair in low and high tempo situations . Interfaces for users with different roles . Management of planning and execution workflow Introduction In this paper, we outline the requirements of a planning and decision aid to support small US Army units operating in urban terrain and describe the prototype system we have built that demonstrates how AI plann...