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INF2D: 19: Monitoring, Planning and Hierarchical Plans

This folder continues, and concludes, our study of symbolic planning. It consists of:

  • three videos of short lectures.  They cover:
    1. Execution Monitoring and Re-planning
    2. Representing Hierarchical Plans
    3. Searching Hierarchical Plans
  • Some required reading from Russell and Norvig
  • A quiz that tests your understanding of the material presented here.

Please watch the videos or attend the in-persion lecture, do the required reading, and attempt the quiz.  If there is anything you don't understand, then please ask your question at the lecture or post it on piazza.

Lecture 19 Slide: Whole!

19.pdf

19a: Execution Monitoring and Re-Planning

19a slides: 19a.pdf
19a video:

19b: Representing Hierarchical Plans

19b slides: 19b.pdf
19b video:

19c: Searching Hierarchical Plans

19c slides: 19c.pdf
19c video:

Required Reading

R&N Section 11.2  or NIE Chapter (11) "Planning and Acting in the Real World", Section 2.

NOTE: The abbreviation R&N refers to:

“Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach” Third Edition, Russell R & Norvig P, Prentice Hall, 2010 (R&N).

The abbreviation NIE stands for the following edition of the same book:

“Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach” Third Edition, Pearson New International Edition, Russell R & Norvig P, Pearson, 2014.

Quiz 19: Monitoring, Re-planning and Hierarchical Plans

These questions are designed to test your understanding of the above course content; doing this quiz does not contribute to your overall grade.  Some questions require a text answer.  You can ask for formative feedback on these from your tutor or on piazza.  Other questions are multiple choice or they require a numeric answer: you will get immediate feedback for these. Please don't attempt this quiz until you have acquainted yourself with this lecture and the required reading.

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    • INF2D: Week 1 - Introduction. Intelligent Agents. Search Problems
    • INF2D: Week 2: Informed Search and Using Constraints, Adversarial Search
    • INF2D: Week 3: Revision, CW1 and Logical Agents
    • INF2D: Week 4: Propositional Inference, First-Order Logic, Unification
    • INF2D: Week 5: Resolution, Situation Calculus, Revision
    • INF2D: Week 6: Symbolic Planning
    • INF2D: Week 7: From Symbolic Planning to Uncertainty and Rationality
      • INF2D: 19: Monitoring, Planning and Hierarchical Plans
      • INF2D: 20: Uncertainty, Rationality and Probability
      • INF2D: 21: Introduction to Coursework 2
    • INF2D: Week 8: Probabilistic Inference
    • INF2D: Week 9: Approximate Inference Methods, and Time
    • INF2D: Week 10: Rational Decision Making
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