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With the goal of efficiently computing collision-free robot motion trajectories in dynamically changing environments, we present results of a novel method for Heuristics Informed Robot Online Path Planning (HIRO). Dividing robot…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Xi Huang , Gergely Sóti , Hongyi Zhou , Christoph Ledermann , Björn Hein , Torsten Kröger

Deep reinforcement learning can match or exceed human performance in stable contexts, but with minor changes to the environment artificial networks, unlike humans, often cannot adapt. Humans rely on a combination of heuristics to simplify…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-06-15 Erik J Peterson , Necati Alp Müyesser , Timothy Verstynen , Kyle Dunovan

Automated Planning is one of the main research field of Artificial Intelligence since its beginnings. Research in Automated Planning aims at developing general reasoners (i.e., planners) capable of automatically solve complex problems.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-05-15 Alessandro Umbrico

Heuristic search is a powerful approach that has successfully been applied to a broad class of planning problems, including classical planning, multi-objective planning, and probabilistic planning modelled as a stochastic shortest path…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Dillon Chen , Felipe Trevizan , Sylvie Thiébaux

The hm admissible heuristics for (sequential and temporal) regression planning are defined by a parameterized relaxation of the optimal cost function in the regression search space, where the parameter m offers a trade-off between the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-09-28 P. Haslum

Planning in partially observable Markov decision processes (POMDPs) remains a challenging topic in the artificial intelligence community, in spite of recent impressive progress in approximation techniques. Previous research has indicated…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-10-19 Zhongzhang Zhang , Xiaoping Chen

This paper presents GRT, a domain-independent heuristic planning system for STRIPS worlds. GRT solves problems in two phases. In the pre-processing phase, it estimates the distance between each fact and the goals of the problem, in a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-06-02 I. Refanidis , I. Vlahavas

Heuristic search is the dominant paradigm in symbolic AI planning, and the strongest heuristics are the result of decades of work by planning researchers. Recent work has shown that large language models (LLMs) can design heuristics for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Elliot Gestrin , Jendrik Seipp

Online strategic classification studies settings in which agents strategically modify their features to obtain favorable predictions. For example, given a classifier that determines loan approval based on credit scores, applicants may open…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Chase Hutton , Adam Melrod , Han Shao

Many sequential decision-making problems can be formulated as shortest-path problems, where the objective is to reach a goal state from a given starting state. Heuristic search is a standard approach for solving such problems, relying on a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Gal Hadar , Forest Agostinelli , Shahaf S. Shperberg

This work considers infinite-horizon optimal control of positive linear systems applied to the case of network routing problems. We demonstrate the equivalence between Stochastic Shortest Path (SSP) problems and optimal control of a certain…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-17 David Ohlin , Anders Rantzer , Emma Tegling

Heuristics are a central component of deterministic planning, particularly in domain-independent settings where general applicability is prioritized over task-specific tuning. This work revisits that paradigm in light of recent advances in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Alexander Tuisov , Yonatan Vernik , Alexander Shleyfman

The training of autonomous agents often requires expensive and unsafe trial-and-error interactions with the environment. Nowadays several data sets containing recorded experiences of intelligent agents performing various tasks, spanning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Giorgio Angelotti , Nicolas Drougard , Caroline Ponzoni Carvalho Chanel

Acting to complete tasks in stochastic partially observable domains is an important problem in artificial intelligence, and is often formulated as a goal-based POMDP. Goal-based POMDPs can be solved using the RTDP-BEL algorithm, that…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Guy Shani

In classical planning, the goal is to derive a course of actions that allows an intelligent agent to move from any situation it finds itself in to one that satisfies its goals. Classical planning is considered domain-independent, i.e., it…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-04-04 David Speck

This paper presents a non-manual design engineering method based on heuristic search algorithm to search for candidate agents in the solution space which formed by artificial intelligence agents modeled on the base of bionics.Compared with…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-07-30 Zengkun Li

Heuristic search algorithms, e.g. A*, are the commonly used tools for pathfinding on grids, i.e. graphs of regular structure that are widely employed to represent environments in robotics, video games etc. Instance-independent heuristics…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-12-23 Daniil Kirilenko , Anton Andreychuk , Aleksandr Panov , Konstantin Yakovlev

Recent work investigated the use of Reinforcement Learning (RL) for the synthesis of heuristic guidance to improve the performance of temporal planners when a domain is fixed and a set of training problems (not plans) is given. The idea is…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Irene Brugnara , Alessandro Valentini , Andrea Micheli

Although heuristic search is one of the most successful approaches to classical planning, this planning paradigm does not apply straightforwardly to Generalized Planning (GP). Planning as heuristic search traditionally addresses the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Javier Segovia-Aguas , Sergio Jiménez , Anders Jonsson

In both industrial and service domains, a central benefit of the use of robots is their ability to quickly and reliably execute repetitive tasks. However, even relatively simple peg-in-hole tasks are typically subject to stochastic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Benjamin Alt , Darko Katic , Rainer Jäkel , Michael Beetz