Interleaving Planning and Robot Execution for Asynchronous User Requests - Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University

Interleaving Planning and Robot Execution for Asynchronous User Requests

Karen Zita Haigh and Manuela Veloso
Conference Paper, Proceedings of AAAI '96 Spring Symposium on Planning with Incomplete Information for Robot Problems, pp. 35 - 44, March, 1996

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.

BibTeX

@conference{Haigh-1996-14092,
author = {Karen Zita Haigh and Manuela Veloso},
title = {Interleaving Planning and Robot Execution for Asynchronous User Requests},
booktitle = {Proceedings of AAAI '96 Spring Symposium on Planning with Incomplete Information for Robot Problems},
year = {1996},
month = {March},
pages = {35 - 44},
}