this paper presents the steady state behavior and maintenance planning of the bleaching system in a paper plant. the paper plant comprises of various systems including feeding, chipping, digesting, washing, bleaching, screening, stock preparation and paper making, etc. one of the most important functionaries of a paper plant, on which quality of paper depends, is the bleaching system, where rem...

Classical planning deals with finding a (shortest) sequence of actions transferring the world from its initial state to a state satisfying the goal condition. Traditional planning systems explore either paths in the state space (state-space planning) or partial plans (plan-space planning). In this paper we show how the ideas from plan-space (partial order) planning can be integrated into state-...

Derivation replay was first proposed by Carbonell as a method of transferring guidance from a previous problemsolving episode to a new one. Subsequent implementations have used state-space planning as the underlying methodology. This paper is motivated by the acknowledged superiority of partial-order (PO) planners in plan generation, and is an attempt to bring derivation replay into the realm o...

Derivation replay was first proposed by Carbonell as a method of transferring guidance from a previous problemsolving episode to a new one. Subsequent implementations have used state-space planning as the underlying methodology. This paper is motivated by the acknowledged superiority of partial-order (PO) planners in plan generation, and is an attempt to bring derivation replay into the realm o...

The common wisdom that goal orderings can be used to improve planning performance is nearly as old as planning itself. During the last decades of research several approaches emerged that computed goal orderings for diierent planning paradigms, mostly in the area of state-space planning. For partial-order, plan-space planners goal orderings have not been investigated in much detail. Mechanisms d...

Intentional use of contact gains ground in the motion planning filed by exploiting it to reduce uncertainty. Our approach extends contact motion planning to reacts to contact events. Our reactive planner augments the state space by taking in consideration continuous and discrete events. We differentiate discrete contact events that can occur during the execution due to motion uncertainty. This ...