Planning

Abstract

The selection of appropriate actions for the delivery robot in the DeliveryWorld cannot be solely based on the computational state of the structured reactive controller and the current sensor data. Often, the delivery robot has to make decisions as to whether it is advantageous to pick up a nearby empty box in order to use it later, in which order to accomplish jobs, or whether or not to spend efforts on making sure that a particular state remains true. Making the appropriate decisions requires the robot to look ahead of time and take expectations about future events into account. Such decisions require planning, more specifically the revision of the course of action based on predictions.