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Safe-Planner: A Single-Outcome Replanner for Computing Strong Cyclic Policies in Fully Observable Non-Deterministic Domains

23 Sep 2021arXiv:2109.11471archive 2025-07-28

Vahid Mokhtari, Ajay Suresha Sathya, Nikolaos Tsiogkas, Wilm Decre

Replanners are efficient methods for solving non-deterministic planning problems. Despite showing good scalability, existing replanners often fail to solve problems involving a large number of misleading plans, i.e., weak plans that do not lead to strong solutions, however, due to their minimal lengths, are likely to be found at every replanning iteration. The poor performance of replanners in such problems is due to their all-outcome determinization. That is, when compiling from non-deterministic to classical, they include all compiled classical operators in a single deterministic domain which leads replanners to continually generate misleading plans. We introduce an offline replanner, called Safe-Planner (SP), that relies on a single-outcome determinization to compile a non-deterministic domain to a set of classical domains, and ordering heuristics for ranking the obtained classical domains. The proposed single-outcome determinization and the heuristics allow for alternating between different classical domains. We show experimentally that this approach can allow SP to avoid generating misleading plans but to generate weak plans that directly lead to strong solutions. The experiments show that SP outperforms state-of-the-art non-deterministic solvers by solving a broader range of problems. We also validate the practical utility of SP in real-world non-deterministic robotic tasks.

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