What is planning in the presence of sensing? (position paper version)
Hector J. Levesque · 1996
hector @ cs.toronto.edu This paper is a very abridged version of one submitted to the 1996 National Conference of the AAAl [8]. Muc h of high-level symbolic AI research has been con-cerned with planning: specifying the behaviour of intelli-gent agents by providing goals to be achieved or maintained. In the s implest case, the output of a planner is a sequence of actions to bG performed by the agent. However, a number of researchers are investigating the topic of conditional plan-ning where the output, for one reason or another, is not ex-pected to be a fixed sequence of actions, but a more general specification involving conditionals and iteration. Surpris-ingly, despite the existence of conditional planners, there has yet to emerge a clear and general specification of what it is that these planners are looking for: what is a plan in this