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Interleaving Planning and Robot Execution for Asynchronous User Requests

Karen Zita Haigh and Manuela Veloso
Proceedings of the AAAI-96 Spring symposium ``Planning with Incomplete Information for Robot Problems'', March, 1996, pp. 35 - 44.


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Abstract
This paper describes Rogue, an integrated planning and executing robotic agent. Rogue is designed to be a roving office gopher unit, doing tasks such as picking up & delivering mail and returning & picking up library books, in a setup where users can post tasks for the robot to do. We have been working towards the goal of building a completely autonomous agent which can learn from its experiences and improve upon its own behaviour with time. This paper describes what we have achieved to-date: (1) a system that can generate an d execute plans for multiple interacting goals which arrive asynchronously and whose task structure is not known a priori, interrupting and suspending tasks when necessary, and (2) a system which can compensate for minor problems in its domain knowledge, monitoring execution to determine when actions did not achieve expected results, and replanning to correct failures.

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Text Reference
Karen Zita Haigh and Manuela Veloso, "Interleaving Planning and Robot Execution for Asynchronous User Requests," Proceedings of the AAAI-96 Spring symposium ``Planning with Incomplete Information for Robot Problems'', March, 1996, pp. 35 - 44.

BibTeX Reference
@inproceedings{Veloso_1996_2920,
   author = "Karen Zita Haigh and Manuela Veloso",
   title = "Interleaving Planning and Robot Execution for Asynchronous User Requests",
   booktitle = "Proceedings of the AAAI-96 Spring symposium ``Planning with Incomplete Information for Robot Problems''",
   pages = "35 - 44",
   month = "March",
   year = "1996",
}

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