Reliable Neuro-Symbolic Abstractions for Planning and Learning

Reliable Neuro-Symbolic Abstractions for Planning and Learning

Naman Shah

Proceedings of the Thirty-Second International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Doctoral Consortium. Pages 7093-7094. https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2023/821

Although state-of-the-art hierarchical robot planning algorithms allow robots to efficiently compute long-horizon motion plans for achieving user desired tasks, these methods typically rely upon environment-dependent state and action abstractions that need to be hand-designed by experts. On the other hand, non-hierarchical robot planning approaches fail to compute solutions for complex tasks that require reasoning over a long horizon. My research addresses these problems by proposing an approach for learning abstractions and developing hierarchical planners that efficiently use learned abstractions to boost robot planning performance and provide strong guarantees of reliability.
Keywords:
Planning and Scheduling: PS: Robot planning
Planning and Scheduling: PS: Hierarchical planning
Planning and Scheduling: PS: Learning in planning and scheduling
Planning and Scheduling: PS: Planning under uncertainty
Robotics: ROB: Learning in robotics
Robotics: ROB: Motion and path planning