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Scheduling a Single Robot in a Job-Shop Environment through Precedence Constraint Posting

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Modern Approaches in Applied Intelligence (IEA/AIE 2011)

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The paper presents recent work on using robust state-of-the-art AI Planning and Scheduling (P&S) techniques to provide autonomous capabilities in a space robotic domain. We have defined a simple robotic scenario, reduced it to a known scheduling problem which is addressed here with a constraint-based, resource-driven reasoner. We present an initial experimentation that compares different meta-heuristic algorithms.

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Díaz, D., R-Moreno, M.D., Cesta, A., Oddi, A., Rasconi, R. (2011). Scheduling a Single Robot in a Job-Shop Environment through Precedence Constraint Posting. In: Mehrotra, K.G., Mohan, C.K., Oh, J.C., Varshney, P.K., Ali, M. (eds) Modern Approaches in Applied Intelligence. IEA/AIE 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6704. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21827-9_22

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