Amanda Coles

Mixed Discrete Continuous Non-Linear Planning through Piecewise Linear Approximation

2021 · Proceedings of the International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling

Reasoning with continuously changing numeric quantities is vital to applying planners in many real-world scenarios. Several planners capable of doing this have been developed recently. Scalability remains a challenge for such planners, especially those that …

How experts explain motion planner output: a preliminary user-study to inform the design of explainable planners

2021

Motion planning is a hard problem that can often overwhelm both users and designers: due to the difficulty in understanding the optimality of a solution, or reasons for a planner to fail to find any …