Canadian AI'05
Article
Abstract:
The AAAI Mobile Robot Challenge requires robots to start from the
entrance of the conference site, find their own way to the registration
desk, socially interact with people and perform volunteer duties as
required, then report at a prescribed time in a conference hall to give
a talk and answer questions. These specifications convey some
interesting planning problems that appear to be too complex for some of
the most efficient AI planning systems that we analyzed. Based on this
analysis, we present a new planning approach that we are developing to
meet the challenge. Preliminary results show that our approach performs
much better on robot conference planning problems than any of the other
AI planning systems we tested.