The GRT Planner: New Results

  • Authors:
  • Ioannis Refanidis;Ioannis P. Vlahavas

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • ECAI '00 Proceedings of the Workshop on Local Search for Planning and Scheduling-Revised Papers
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

This paper presents recent extensions to the GRT planner, a domain-independent heuristic state-space planner for STRIPS worlds. The planner computes off-line, in a pre-processing phase, estimates for the distances between each problem's fact and the goals. These estimates are utilized during a forward search phase, in order to obtain values for the distances between the intermediate states and the goals.The paper focuses on several problems that arise from the backward heuristic computation and presents ways to cope with them. Moreover, two methods, which concern automatic domain enrichment and automatic irrelevant objects elimination, are presented. Finally, the planner has been equipped with a hillclimbing strategy and a closed list of visited states for pruning purposes. Performance results show that GRT exhibits significant improvement over its AIPS-00 competition version.