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- All Subjects: planning
- Creators: Smith, David E.
- Creators: Rice, Jackson
Automated planning provides the solution to this problem -- indeed, one of the main motivations that underpinned the beginnings of the field of automated planning was to provide planning support for Shakey the robot with the STRIPS system. For long, however, automated planners suffered from scalability issues that precluded their application to real world, real time robotic systems. Recent decades have seen a gradual abeyance of those issues, and fast planning systems are now the norm rather than the exception. However, some of these advances in speedup and scalability have been achieved by ignoring or abstracting out challenges that real world integrated robotic systems must confront.
In this work, the problem of planning for human-hobot teaming is introduced. The central idea -- the use of automated planning systems as mediators in such human-robot teaming scenarios -- and the main challenges inspired from real world scenarios that must be addressed in order to make such planning seamless are presented: (i) Goals which can be specified or changed at execution time, after the planning process has completed; (ii) Worlds and scenarios where the state changes dynamically while a previous plan is executing; (iii) Models that are incomplete and can be changed during execution; and (iv) Information about the human agent's plan and intentions that can be used for coordination. These challenges are compounded by the fact that the human-robot team must execute in an open world, rife with dynamic events and other agents; and in a manner that encourages the exchange of information between the human and the robot. As an answer to these challenges, implemented solutions and a fielded prototype that combines all of those solutions into one planning system are discussed. Results from running this prototype in real world scenarios are presented, and extensions to some of the solutions are offered as appropriate.
Throughout this project, we will examine the live music promotion industry's best administrative and financial practices, including planning, budgeting, and cost-cutting for music festivals. Additionally, we will look at the financial obligations of different sized music festivals, and how these obligations contribute value to both the customer and the community. Finally, we will examine how the COVID-19 pandemic has financially impacted the live music industry from a promoter perspective, in addition to examining the hardships faced by many communities as a result of pandemic-related music festival cancellations.
Throughout this project, we will examine the live music promotion industry's best administrative and financial practices, including planning, budgeting, and cost-cutting for music festivals. Additionally, we will look at the financial obligations of different sized music festivals, and how these obligations contribute value to both the customer and the community. Finally, we will examine how the COVID-19 pandemic has financially impacted the live music industry from a promoter perspective, in addition to examining the hardships faced by many communities as a result of pandemic-related music festival cancellations.