Partial-Order Planning with Concurrent Interacting Actions

@article{Boutilier2011PartialOrderPW,
  title={Partial-Order Planning with Concurrent Interacting Actions},
  author={Craig Boutilier and Ronen I. Brafman},
  journal={ArXiv},
  year={2011},
  volume={abs/1106.0249}
}
In order to generate plans for agents with multiple actuators, agent teams, or distributed controllers, we must be able to represent and plan using concurrent actions with interacting effects. This has historically been considered a challenging task requiring a temporal planner with the ability to reason explicitly about time. We show that with simple modifications, the STRIPS action representation language can be used to represent interacting actions. Moreover, algorithms for partial-order… 
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