Automated Planning - The Heriot-Watt SeaPort - Management Assignment Help

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The Heriot-Watt SeaPort has decided to launch its next-generation submarine for underwater exploration. Operations on board the submarine will be controlled by mission plans generated using an automated planner that will direct the people, autonomous agents, and submarine's controls. The submarine itself is quite large with multiple sections, including the bridge, launch bay, science lab, sickbay, and possibly others. Different types of personnel serve on board the submarine: the captain, engineers, science officers, security personnel, and navigators. The submarine is also equipped with specialised underwater vehicles (mini-subs) that can perform various tasks. Some of the submarine's operations are described in the following list (which isn't exhaustive): 

1. The captain can order the submarine to travel to a given underwater region, provided the captain is on the bridge and a navigator is present to receive the order.

2. The submarine can travel to an underwater region provided a navigator is on the bridge to control the submarine and has received an order from the captain. The navigator must have received an order to travel to that specific underwater region.

3. Personnel can move between different sections of the submarine, which are connected by doors. Personnel may have to pass through different sections to reach their destination and cannot simply move from any location to any other location directly.

4. Each underwater region can be empty or can contain a ridge, an abyssal plain, and/or a vortex.

5. A drilling mini-sub can be deployed to a ridge to retrieve mineral samples. To do so, the mini-sub must be launched from the submarine, approach the ridge and drill for mineral samples, and return to the submarine. No submarine personnel are required on the mini-sub.

6. An exploration mini-sub can be deployed to an abyssal plain to install an underwater sensor net to monitor the plain. An engineer must operate the mini-sub and set up the sensor devices. To complete the mission the mini-sub must land on the plain, the underwater sensor net must be deployed, and the mini-sub and engineer must return to the submarine.

7. An exploration mini-sub can be deployed to an abyssal plain that has an underwater base to check on the people working in the base. The captain must be part of the mission. If the base has been taken over by Atlanteans and the submarine's security personnel aren't present, the captain will be injured. To complete the mission the mini-sub must land at the base, the captain must meet the base's leaders, and then the mini-sub and submarine personnel must return to the submarine.

8. Mini-subs can be launched from the launch bay provided an engineer is in the launch bay to operate the launch controls. Mini-subs can be retrieved back into the launch bay if an engineer is present. When a drilling mini-sub is retrieved, any mineral samples collected are automatically transferred into the launch bay. When an exploration mini-sub is retrieved, all personnel on the mini-sub disembark into the launch bay.

9. Injured crew members can be healed in the submarine's autonomous sickbay.

10. Only science officers can move mineral samples around the submarine. Mineral samples can be studied in the science lab if a science officer is present.

11. A vortex can be studied if the submarine is in an underwater region with a vortex. A science officer can perform a vortex scan from the science lab.

12. The captain can order the navigator to direct the submarine into a vortex.

13. If the submarine tries to enter a vortex without its pressure shields up it will be destroyed. Engineers can activate the pressure shields from the bridge.

14. If the submarine enters a vortex it is immediately transported to another underwater region.

15. When the submarine returns to the SeaPort, reports of all mineral samples and vortex studies, all plains with sensor nets, and all status reports of underwater bases must be communicated back to the SeaPort to successfully end the mission. 

At launch, the submarine is given a series of missions that it must complete. These missions might include retrieving mineral samples from ridges, studying vortices, placing sensor nets on abyssal plains, and checking underwater bases. The submarine initially starts at the SeaPort and must return there at the successful completion of its missions. 
 

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