The Lightweight Automated Planning Toolkit (LAPKT) is the result of a major effort to develop a framework for writing domain-independent planners which offered clean and clear programming interfaces. The inspiration for investing time & effort into this is that we (Miquel RamÃrez and Nir Lipovetzky) wanted to work in an environment which constrained us the least. We didn't feel too comfortable developing our research by just "commenting out" stuff in existing planning systems and introducing ours.
We develop our research on top of LAPKT, so over time we will be adding whatever we found to be useful and wasn't already present in the toolkit.
We would like to thank Hector Geffner, as great part of the toolkit was developed when we were his PhD. Students. Since 2013 It has been kindly supported by the Australian Research Council linkage grant LP11010015 (Peter J. Stuckey and Adrian R. Pearce), Department of Computing and Information Systems, The University of Melbourne.
We would like to thank the following people for having contributed (indirectly) to this toolkit by having provided us with ideas on "how to write a planner" by publishing or sharing their own planning systems. In no particular order:
- Blai Bonet
- Joerg Hoffman
- Patrik Haslum
- Malte Helmert
Contributors: Miquel Ramirez, Nir Lipovetzky, Christian Muise
Branding: Thanks Vaishak Belle, LAPKT ([lapkat]) fixed our previous unpronounceable LWAPTK acronym . Thanks Angela Rojas for creating the great Logo over dinner.
Quoting Joerg's remark on FF source code, "have fun"!