First principles planning in BDI systems

BDI (Belief, Desire, Intention) agent systems are very powerful, but they lack the ability to incorporate planning. There has been some previous work to incorporate planning within such systems. However, this has either focussed on producing low-level plan sequences, losing much of the domain knowledge inherent in BDI systems, or has been limited to HTN (Hierarchical Task Network) planning, which cannot find plans other than those specified by the programmer. In this work, we incorporate classical planning into a BDI agent, but in a way that respects and makes use of the prodomain knowledge available, by producing abstract plans that can be executed using such knowledge. In doing so, we recn intrinsic tension between striving for abstract plans and, at the same time, ensuring that unnecessary actions, unrelated to the specific goal to be achieved, are avoided. We explore this tenfirst characterizing the set of “ideal” abstract plans that redundant while maximally abstract, and...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2009
• Where: ATAL
• Authors: Lavindra de Silva, Sebastian Sardiña, Lin Padgham
• Keywords: Abstract Plan, Artificial Intelligence, ATAL 2009, Incorporate Planning, Low-level Plan Sequences