Planning in the Wild: Modeling Tools for PDDL
This work tackles the problem of tool support for AI planning engineers, but it appears incremental as it builds on existing knowledge engineering tools.
The paper addresses the lack of engineering tools like syntax highlighting and visualization that hinders the adoption of AI planning in large-scale projects, proposing myPDDL as a modular toolbox for creating PDDL domains and problems, and evaluates it by comparing to existing tools and assessing its usefulness for novice users.
Even though there are sophisticated AI planning algorithms, many integrated, large-scale projects do not use planning. One reason seems to be the missing support by engineering tools such as syntax highlighting and visualization. We propose myPDDL - a modular toolbox for efficiently creating PDDL domains and problems. To evaluate myPDDL, we compare it to existing knowledge engineering tools for PDDL and experimentally assess its usefulness for novice PDDL users.