Timeline-based Planning with Uncertainty: a Human-Robot Collaboration Case Study
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Planning is a core field of Artificial Intelligence since its beginnings and, there are many planning techniques that have been introduced in the literature. The timeline-based approach is a particular temporal planning paradigm which has been successfully applied in many real world scenarios. However despite its practical success, there is not a shared view of this approach. In this context, my PHD project aims at investigating timeline-based planning and applying this technique to solve real-world problems. The main research objectives this paper describe are: (i) formally characterize timeline-based approach to planning by taking into account also controllability features of a domain; (ii) develop a planning framework (EPSL) and propose a methodology for modeling and solving problems with timelines; (iii) apply the proposed approach to real-world problems. Concerning this last point, Human-Robot Collaboration (HRC) scenarios present many critical points a planning technique must deal with in order to successfully face this kind of problems. In this regards, several characteristics of the envisaged approach to timeline-based planning, are well-suited for this kind of applications. Thus the paper presents some initial contributions for an HRC scenario within an ongoing research project.
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