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PDDL to DFA: A Symbolic Transformation for Effective Reasoning

De Giacomo, G., Di Stasio, A. ORCID: 0000-0001-5475-2978 & Parretti, G. (2025). PDDL to DFA: A Symbolic Transformation for Effective Reasoning. In: Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics Lipics. 32nd International Symposium on Temporal Representation and Reasoning (TIME 2025), 27-29 Aug 2025, London, UK. doi: 10.4230/LIPIcs.TIME.2025.7

Abstract

ltl_f reactive synthesis under environment specifications, which concerns the automated generation of strategies enforcing logical specifications, has emerged as a powerful technique for developing autonomous AI systems. It shares many similarities with Fully Observable Nondeterministic (fond) planning. In particular, nondeterministic domains can be expressed as ltl<inf>f</inf> environment specifications. However, this is not needed since nondeterministic domains can be transformed into deterministic finite-state automata (dfa) to be used directly in the synthesis process. In this paper, we present a practical symbolic technique for translating domains expressed in Planning Domain Definition Language (pddl) into dfas. The technique allows for the integration of the planning domain, reduced to dfa in a symbolic form, into current symbolic ltl<inf>f</inf> synthesis tools. We implemented our technique in a new tool, pddl2dfa, and applied it to solve fond planning by using state-of-the-art reactive synthesis techniques in a tool called syft4fond. Our empirical results confirm the effectiveness of our approach.

Publication Type: Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Additional Information: © Giuseppe De Giacomo, Antonio Di Stasio, and Gianmarco Parretti; licensed under Creative Commons License CC-BY 4.0
Publisher Keywords: Fully Observable Nondeterministic Planning, Linear Temporal Logics on finite traces, Reactive Synthesis, DFA
Subjects: Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
Departments: School of Science & Technology
School of Science & Technology > Department of Computer Science
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