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Accession Number:
ADA278936
Title:
The Breakdown of Operators When Interacting With the External World
Descriptive Note:
Research rept.,
Corporate Author:
CARNEGIE-MELLON UNIV PITTSBURGH PA DEPT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
Report Date:
1994-02-01
Pagination or Media Count:
41.0
Abstract:
By looking at the simple task of tossing a bean bag from hand to hand, we show how the macro operator method breaks down when formulating agent models that interact with an uncertain external world. A macro operator encapsulates a plan to reach an objective. Occasionally the objective will be found to be unachievable, requiring the macro operator and its plan to be rejected. Letting the macro operator interact with the external world does not, by itself, change this situation. but the fact that the results of the interaction are uncertain, and the agents knowledge incomplete. does. The key idea is that the agent cant positively determine if progress towards the objective is being made in the external world, and thus errors will be made in rejecting a macro operator that would succeed. We show that there are a number of methods by which the agent can recover from such an operator rejection and continue toward the operators objective. If we make operator rejection and recovery into a common mechanism, then the operators and the plans they represent will be split by the interaction into a sequence of smaller operators each doing a portion of the work toward the objective of the larger operator. The models are described in terms of Soar and we assume the readers familiarity with both the architecture and the Problem Space Computational Model in our discussions. Artificial Intelligence, Learning, Plan formulation, Plan execution, Program transformation, Soar.
Distribution Statement:
APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE
