Planform: An open environment for building planners
Thomas Leo McCluskey, Maria Fox, Ruth S. Aylett · University of Huddersfield Repository (University of Huddersfield) · 2002
The PLANFORM project aimed to develop a high level research platform for the systematic construction of planner domain models and automatically configured planning algorithms. Our objectives were, briefly: To assemble tools within an open environment for the acquisition and modelling of planning domain models; To create languages for modelling of planning domains and to specify characteristics of planners leading to the configuration of purpose-built planning engines; To create a tool which synthesises a domain model and a planning engine into a planning application; To evaluate the approach using realistic problem domains. During the project, the emphasis changed slightly so that some of objectives developed in a different direction. Rather than abstractly defining planning algorithms, we decided to create a library of algorithms and use domain analysis technology to design and configure a planning application. We perceived the knowledge acquisition bottleneck to be a significant problem for AI Planning and concentrated more resource than planned on this area. Application