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The planner

In the past six months we have developed a domain independent, logic programming-based planner for action domain descriptions written in a language designed under the basis of K . The planner, called COPLAS, is able to generate conditional plans from domains with sensing actions. The domain can also describe actions with non-deterministic effects. An action can cause the lost of knowledge if its effect is non-deterministic. Take for example the action of tossing a coin. Assume that in the initial situation we knew that the coin was showing heads. If we toss the coin we know it will land with either heads showing or with tails showing, but exactly which cannot be predicted. Non-deterministic actions and sensing actions have opposite effects on an agent's knowledge. The planer can also handle a limited class of ramification constrains in the form of axioms and actions with universally quantified effects. For example. moving a table will cause all the objects on the table to move along with the table.





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