Planning in the Wild: Modeling Tools for PDDL

TL;DR

This paper introduces myPDDL, a modular toolbox designed to improve the creation and understanding of PDDL planning models, addressing the lack of engineering tools in large-scale AI planning projects.

Contribution

The paper presents myPDDL, a new tool that enhances PDDL modeling with features like syntax highlighting and visualization, and evaluates its effectiveness for novice users.

Findings

myPDDL improves PDDL modeling efficiency

Novice users benefit from myPDDL's features

Compared to existing tools, myPDDL offers better usability

Abstract

Even though there are sophisticated AI planning algorithms, many integrated, large-scale projects do not use planning. One reason seems to be the missing support by engineering tools such as syntax highlighting and visualization. We propose myPDDL - a modular toolbox for efficiently creating PDDL domains and problems. To evaluate myPDDL, we compare it to existing knowledge engineering tools for PDDL and experimentally assess its usefulness for novice PDDL users.