Approximately optimal monitoring of plan preconditions

  • Authors:
  • Craig Boutilier

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON

  • Venue:
  • UAI'00 Proceedings of the Sixteenth conference on Uncertainty in artificial intelligence
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

Monitoring plan preconditions can allow for replanning when a precondition fails, generally far in advance of the point in the plan where the precondition is relevant. However, monitoring is generally costly, and some precondition failures have a very small impact on plan quality. We formulate a model for optimal precondition monitoring, using partially-observable Markov decisions processes, and describe methods for solving this model effectively, though approximately. Specifically, we show that the single-precondition monitoring problem is generally tractable, and the multiple-precondition monitoring policies can be effectively approximated using single-precondition solutions.