A simulation substrate for real-time planning
Scott D. Anderson · 1996
Real-time planning is, generally speaking, problem-solving under time-pressure. In order to test and evaluate real-time planners, scientists need to have environments that pose problems to be solved. This dissertation describes a substrate, called Mess, for building environments and real-time planners. Mess relies on a second system, TCL, to replace CPU time as a way to measure the amount of thinking done by a real-time agent. The key issue with real-time planning simulators is that some of the simulation processes represent real-world events and other processes represent thinking or planning that occurs while the real-world events do. Therefore, there needs to be a correspondence between real-world events and thinking processes.