Planning with abduction: A logical framework to explore extensions to classical planning

Abstract

In this work we show how a planner implemented as an abductive reasoning process can have the same performance and behavior as classical planning algorithms. We demonstrate this result by considering three different versions of an abductive event calculus planner on reproducing some important comparative analyses of planning algorithms found in the literature. We argue that a logic-based planner, defined as the application of general purpose theorem proving techniques to a general purpose action formalism, can be a very solid base for the research on extending the classical planning approach. © Springer-Verlag 2004.