An object-oriented multimodel approach to integrate planning, intelligent control and simulation

The areas of planning, intelligent control and simulation have each spawned their own representational structures. Deliberative planning approaches found within AI are often rule based and simulation is often function based. Intelligent control approaches and the perceived need to integrate reactive control with deliberative planning have suggested an integration of modeling techniques; however, well-formed integration techniques are scarce. The multimodel method for large-scale systems containing intelligent and nonintelligent objects is proposed. The initial results with planning and control within a truck depot show that, with multimodeling, current deliberative planning methods are extended to include a richer set of model types besides production rule systems. Moreover, reactive control is modulated by deliberative planning model structures so that the entire model is well-formed and easy to comprehend.<<ETX>>