Building Helpful Virtual Agents Using Plan Recognition and Planning
Christopher Geib, Janith Weerasinghe, Sergey Matskevich, Pavan Kantharaju, Bart G. W. Craenen, Ronald P. A. Petrick · Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment · 2016
This paper presents a new model of cooperative behavior based on the interaction of plan recognition and automated planning. Based on observations of the actions of an "initiator" agent, a "supporter" agent uses plan recognition to hypothesize the plans and goals of the initiator. The supporter agent then proposes and plans for a set of subgoals it will achieve to help the initiator. The approach is demonstrated in an open-source, virtual robot platform.