Monitoring Plan Optimality During Execution

A great deal of research has addressed the problem of generating optimal plans, but these plans are of limited use in circumstances where noisy sensors, unanticipated exogenous actions, or imperfect models result in discrepancies between predicted and observed states of the world during plan execution. Such discrepancies bring into question the continued optimality of the plan being executed and, according to current-day practice, are resolved by aborting the plan and replanning, often unnecessarily. In this paper we address the problem of monitoring the continued optimality of a given plan at execution time, in the face of such discrepancies. While replanning cannot be avoided when critical aspects of the environment change, our objective is to avoid replanning unnecessarily. We address the problem by building on practical approaches to monitoring plan validity. We begin by formalizing plan validity in the situation calculus and characterizing common approaches to monitoring plan val...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: AIPS
• Authors: Christian Fritz, Sheila A. McIlraith
• Keywords: AIPS 2007, Artificial Intelligence, Plan Execution, Plan Optimality, Plan Validity