Reactive Policies with Planning for Action Languages

TL;DR

This paper introduces a high-level transition system representation for reactive policies in agents, integrating online planning to determine actions and analyze policy execution flow.

Contribution

It presents a novel representation that combines reactive policies with planning, enabling analysis and flexible behavior design in decision-making agents.

Findings

Allows analysis of policy execution flow

Supports online planning for action determination

Enhances flexibility in behavior design

Abstract

We describe a representation in a high-level transition system for policies that express a reactive behavior for the agent. We consider a target decision component that figures out what to do next and an (online) planning capability to compute the plans needed to reach these targets. Our representation allows one to analyze the flow of executing the given reactive policy, and to determine whether it works as expected. Additionally, the flexibility of the representation opens a range of possibilities for designing behaviors.