Plan Library Reconfigurability in BDI Agents



Cardoso, RC ORCID: 0000-0001-6666-6954, Dennis, Louise A ORCID: 0000-0003-1426-1896 and Fisher, Michael
(2020) Plan Library Reconfigurability in BDI Agents. In: 7th International Workshop on Engineering Multi-Agent Systems, 2019-5-13 - 2019-5-14, Montreal Canada.

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Abstract

One of the major advantages of modular architectures in robotic systems is the ability to add or replace nodes, without needing to rearrange the whole system. In this type of system, autonomous agents can aid in the decision making and high-level control of the robot. However, when autonomously replacing a node it can be difficult to reconfigure plans in the agent's plan library while retaining correctness. In this paper, we exploit the formal concept of capabilities in Belief-Desire-Intention agents and describe how agents can reason about these capabilities in order to reconfigure their plan library while retaining overall correctness constraints. To validate our approach, we show the implementation of our framework and an experiment using a practical example in the Mars rover scenario.

Item Type: Conference or Workshop Item (Unspecified)
Uncontrolled Keywords: Belief-Desire-Intention, modular architectures, autonomous agents, reconfigurability, robotic systems
Depositing User: Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited: 19 Mar 2019 12:14
Last Modified: 19 Jan 2023 00:56
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-51417-4_10
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URI: https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3034505