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Lee McCluskey, University of Huddersfield - EKAW'04
Knowledge Formulation for AI Planning
Lee McCluskey
Ron Simpson
Artform research groupDepartment of Computing and
Mathematical Sciences,
The University of Huddersfield
Lee McCluskey, University of Huddersfield - EKAW'04
Contents
Background + Problems in KE for AI Planning Automated acquisition by generic object patterns Automated acquisition by induction Advertising some KE+AI planning things
Ontology-free talk
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The Problem – KE for AI PlanningIn order to reason with actions, events, processes etc
symbolic AI technology should have a representation of them.
How is this knowledge acquired?
The manual process of encoding and maintenance is HARD.
APPLICATIONDOMAIN
DomainModel
PlanningEngine
Planning System
Lee McCluskey, University of Huddersfield - EKAW'04
Background and Research Aim
Our area: algorithms and representations for AI plan generation technology.
Our aim is to make the technology
more accessible and usable. The knowledge engineering method/tools should reduce the
complexity of the creation process by abstraction (eg of “mathematical details”) reuse (eg planning patterns, import ontologies) early error ID (static/dynamic tests)
Eventually we would like to construct an autonomous knowledge acquisition agent for planning problems.
Lee McCluskey, University of Huddersfield - EKAW'04
Results of early work: GIPO http://scom.hud.ac.uk/planform/gipo/
Lee McCluskey, University of Huddersfield - EKAW'04
GIPO – versions
GIPO 1.1 DownloadableFor ‘Flat’ models (ECP’01)
GIPO 2
DownloadableFor hierarchical models(ICAPS’03)
GIPO+
For models withcts time, eventsand processes(PlanSig’03)
GIPO 1.2
Incorporating first version operator induction (AIPS’02)
Lee McCluskey, University of Huddersfield - EKAW'04
Problems
GIPO has a user-base but problems prevent it from being very effective:
Dosen’t hide tricky parameter manipulation Re-use only of existing models (not abstract) also
‘re-factoring’ hard Still have to be a Planning/KE expert to use
In the paper we detail two ‘high level’ approaches that suppress some of the mathematical details and (we claim) make the KE process more efficient
Lee McCluskey, University of Huddersfield - EKAW'04
Example in paper:The Lazy Hiking WorldImagine Sue and Fred want to
have a hiking holiday in the Lake District in North West England.
They walk in one direction, and do one ``leg'' each day. But not being very fit, they use two cars to carry them / the tent / their luggage to the start/end of a leg.
They must have their tent up already so they can sleep the night, before they set off again to do the next leg in the morning.
Actions include walking, driving, moving and erecting tents, and sleeping.
The requirement for the planner is to work out the logistics and generate plans for each day of the holiday.
Helvelyn
Fairfield
Coniston
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Automated acquisition by generic object patterns
IDEA - many planning domains are built on common sets of Patterns.
We have ‘hardwired’ some of these patterns into GIPO e.g. mobile, carrier, bistate, portable ..
INPUT: user configures patterns THEN merges them with other configured patterns.
Eg in Hiking world a tent = portable + bistate
Car = carrier
Person = driver + portable + bistate
OUPUT: full domain model.
Lee McCluskey, University of Huddersfield - EKAW'04
Automated acquisition by induction(Opmaker) INPUTS:
Offline: Partial domain spec, got via GIPO or other acquisition method (eg importing an ontology):-
Objects, object classes, predicates, invariants
Online: Training sequences, initial states, and user input.
Example training sequence:Load tent1 sue keswick
Get-in-car sue car1 keswick
Drive sue car1 keswick helvelyn tent1
Unload tent1 sue car1 helvelyn
Putup tent1 sue helvelyn ETC
OUTPUTS: A set of Action Schema – one for each action name in training
Lee McCluskey, University of Huddersfield - EKAW'04
EVALUATION?
- Evaluated by re-creating benchmark domains, new domains, or new versions of old domains ..
EG OPMAKER: The Hiking Domain: a full action schema set was generated by Opmaker, passing all local and global validation checks in the GIPO system. The resulting model was fed into Hoffman’s FF via GIPO, generated a plan to solve the general hiking problem. This was all done in approximately 1 day’s development.
- Our claim: encoding time of planning benchmarks - Hours (generic object patterns / induction )- 1 or 2 days (with GIPO) - Several days / weeks (hand written)All this could be independently verified as GIPO is publicly available
BUT the two techniques (generic object patterns, induction of operators) not independently, empirically validated yet
Lee McCluskey, University of Huddersfield - EKAW'04
Related Work
Not a great deal:- Some work in inducing action schema in the
Planning literature (Wang, Grant) but not in the context of a tools environment like GIPO
- Generic patterns for AI Planning: Our work was originally formulated with Fox and Long of Strathclyde University – but we know of no similar work
Lee McCluskey, University of Huddersfield - EKAW'04
Conclusions + Future Work “Planning technology is more accessible / usable /
less error prone with GIPO + new high level methods”
BUT Re-factoring: Can edit configured patterns rather
than domain model (and re-generate domain model) BUT ‘manual’ changes would be lost.
Scaling-up: Generic objects / induction methods still to be implemented on more expressive versions of GIPO
Generic Object Interface: Text -> Diagrammatic (State machine) interface
Lee McCluskey, University of Huddersfield - EKAW'04
Advertisement sections
GIPO-I and GIPO-II software can be obtained freely for Linux, Solaris and Windows via our website:
http://scom.hud.ac.uk/planform/gipo/ there is a comprehensive web site for planners and
schedulers, planning tools, domain models - on
http://scom.hud.ac.uk/planet/repository/
AND a roadmap for KE in AI Planning sponsored by the EU PLANET Network
Lee McCluskey, University of Huddersfield - EKAW'04
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