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This paper discusses how far the characteristics of the execution systems impact the planner which plans for them. It does this in the context of the MACTA project in which multiple cooperating mobile robots running a behavioural architecture are integrated with a Reflective Agent based on a computer running a symbolic planner, in this case UCPOP. The paper proposes some solutions but concludes that it is very difficult to produce a clean interface between a planner and its execution systems.
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Aylett, R., Coddington, A., Barnes, D., Ghanea-Hercock, R. (1997). What does a planner need to know about execution?. In: Steel, S., Alami, R. (eds) Recent Advances in AI Planning. ECP 1997. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1348. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-63912-8_73
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