Integrating Action and Reasoning through Simulation

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10.2991/agi.2009.24How to use a DOI?

Abstract

This paper presents an approach for integrating action in the world with general symbolic reasoning. Instead of working with task-specific symbolic abstractions of continuous space, our system mediates action through a simple spatial representation. Low-level action controllers work in the context of this representation, and a high-level symbolic system has access to it. By allowing actions to be spatially simulated, general reasoning about action is possible. Only very simple task-independent symbolic abstractions of space are necessary, and controllers can be used without the need for symbolic characterization of their behavior. We draw parallels between this system and a modern robotic motion planning algorithm, RRT. This algorithm is instantiated in our system, and serves as a case study showing how the architecture can effectively address real robotics problems.

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© 2009, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Samuel Wintermute
PY  - 2009/06
DA  - 2009/06
TI  - Integrating Action and Reasoning through Simulation
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd Conference on Artificial General Intelligence (2009)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 102
EP  - 107
SN  - 1951-6851
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DO  - 10.2991/agi.2009.24
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