Re: task3

[Subbarao Kambhampati <rao@asu.edu>]

[[Make sure to read the elaboration on task 3 from the previous mail]]

Good question.

Your basic understanding that increasing the hands should allow more 
parallelism (and more actions in the same time step) is correct.
However,  since regression search is being done by regression of a state 
over one single action at a time, your solutions will still be
sequential--i.e., one action per step.

In contrast,  since Graphplan allows multiple actions per step, if you ran 
graphplan on the same problem
(which  you can do by calling the "plan" function in my code--see usage 
instruction), you will see the behavior you are expecting.

Happy Deepavali! (I know I know--this is not the most fun way to spend the 
deepavali night... )
Rao



At 06:23 PM 11/14/2001 -0700, you wrote:
>In task 3, when we accommodate multiple named robot hands does that mean that
>we can have multiple actions happening at the same time (at the same level)?
>Basically, if i am understanding correctly, multiple hands should allow the
>problem to be solved in fewer steps --> faster search....Is this correct?
>
>Thank You,
>
>-snehal