Fully Automated Cyclic Planning for Large-Scale Manufacturing Domains

Book One

Volume

Proceedings of the International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling, 24

Full Technical Papers

In domains such as factory assembly, it is necessary to assemble many identical instances of a particular product.  While modern planners can generate assembly plans for single instances of a complex product, generating plans to manufacture many instances of a product is beyond the capabilities of standard planners.  We propose ACP, a system which, given a model of a single instance of a product, automatically reformulates and solves the problem as a cyclic planning problem. We show that our domain-independent ACP system can successfully generate cyclic plans for problems which are too large to be solved directly using standard planners.

10.1609/icaps.v24i1.13620