Information about course projects

The course projects are intended to let you look in depth at some area of planning that may not be covered in class, or may only be covered briefly. We encourage you to do some original research in a planning area that is of interest to you, although in-depth surveys of a topic also make fine projects. Below are some example project titles and sample final reports from previous years.

Project schedule

• September 30th: initial proposals due.
• October 7th: Feedback to students on initial proposals, and suggested revisions if necessary.
• October 14th: Final proposals due.
• November 25th and Dec 2nd: Project presentations in class.
• December 12th: Final project report due (not the 5th as previously stated).

Course project titles from previous classes

In some cases there are sample final projects to give you an idea of the scope and size of a project.

Fall 2000

• "Giving STEVE Options: Conditional planning for a plan execution system"
  Andrew Scholer
• "Planning for information gathering"
  Osman Yildirim Kaya
• "Reactive planning system for anticipation integrated with cognitive map and spatial semantic representation"
  Changhee Han
• "The user-interface model as a planning domain"
  Jacob Eisenstein

Fall 1998

• "Planner based upon grounded propositions"
  Kirk Reinholtz
• "Approaches to integrating abstractions in graphplan-based planning systems"
  Greg Barish. Final report in PDF, and Word.
• "Planning in a multi-agent domain"
  Jay Modi
• "An analysis of representation and performance of planners"
  Kihoon Jeoung
• "Learning domain-dependent search control information for TLPlan"
  Yan Yu
• "Applying IPP to a solitaire cards game"
  Radhika Sharma
• "Unexpected events during execution"
  Youngjun Kim
• "Mobile robot planning"
  Les Williams

Fall 1996

• Extending existing planners or creating new planners:
  • "Extending Graphplan"
    B. Cenk Gazen Final report in Word or postscript.
  • "SINERGY: A Linear Planner Based on Genetic Programming"
    Ion Muslea
• Applying planning to other research areas:
  • "High-Level Inspection Planning for Coordinate Measuring Machines using Domain Independent Planners"
    Steven Spitz. Final report in Word or PostScript.
  • "Redesign by Case-Based Planning"
    Sami Habib
  • "The Deliverator: A Planner for an Autonomous Delivery Agent"
    Sheila Tejada
• Extending planning capabilities of ongoing research projects:
  • "Extending the SIMS Query Planner for Binding Patterns"
    Naveen Ashish
  • "Planning Domain Development Toolkit: An Extension to DPLAN"
    Forest Fisher
• Writing a planning domain:
  • "Water Color Techniques for Painting in UCPOP"
    Yasuhiro Inoue
• Survey of a planning research area not covered in class:
  • "Planning and Robustness"
    Gal A. Kaminka
  • "Multi-Agent Planning and Collaboration"
    Burt Wilsker