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CASP solutions for planning in hybrid domains

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2017

MARCELLO BALDUCCINI,
DANIELE MAGAZZENI,
MARCO MARATEA and
EMILY C. LEBLANC
MARCELLO BALDUCCINI
Affiliation:
Saint Joseph's University, Department of Decision and Support Services, 5600 City Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19131, USA (e-mail: marcello.balduccini@gmail.com)
DANIELE MAGAZZENI
Affiliation:
King's College London, Department of Informatics, The Strand, London, WC2R 2LS, England (e-mail: daniele.magazzeni@kcl.ac.uk)
MARCO MARATEA
Affiliation:
University of Genoa, Italy (e-mail: marco@dibris.unige.it)
EMILY C. LEBLANC
Affiliation:
Drexel University, Computer Science Department, 3141 Chestnut Avenue, PA 19104, USA (e-mail: ecl38@drexel.edu)
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Abstract

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Constraint answer set programming (CASP) is an extension of answer set programming that allows for numerical constraints to be added in the rules. PDDL+ is an extension of the PDDL standard language of automated planning for modeling mixed discrete-continuous dynamics. In this paper, we present CASP solutions for dealing with PDDL+ problems, i.e., encoding from PDDL+ to CASP, and extensions to the algorithm of the ezcsp CASP solver in order to solve CASP programs arising from PDDL+ domains. An experimental analysis, performed on well-known linear and non-linear variants of PDDL+ domains, involving various configurations of the ezcsp solver, other CASP solvers, and PDDL+ planners, shows the viability of our solution.

Keywords

Answer set programmingplanninghybrid domains

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Regular Papers
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Theory and Practice of Logic Programming , Volume 17 , Issue 4 , July 2017, pp. 591 - 633
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2017 

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