Crackpot

In our lab, we are building a real-time planning system in C++, called Crackpot. A planning system can reason about which set of actions need to be taken in order to achieve specified goals. For example, if a robot Wall-e is asked to fetch a drink from the local store, it must internally generate a plan to reach the store, buy the drink and then return back home.

In our related games lab, Crackpot will be used in a story planning project. It will serve as an engine to automatically develop plans or "recipes" for story content generation, with the goal to optimize player experience.

Crackpot is a general (the technical term is domain-independent), real-time, dynamic planning system. Being general, it can be used for automated planning across diverse applications.

Crackpot is a public domain, open source software. See https://sourceforge.net/projects/crackpot/. See also my blog on Crackpot.