HTN planner "Pyhop" with a simple example "making tea at home" for the planning and scheduling course. Developed in Python version 2.7.

Python 3.4 enum backport

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/enum34

There are several other enum libraries for python, make sure you have this one above!

In most cases, we use enumerations instead of strings to make it more robust against errors, especially against typos.

From Python console, navigate to the directory of your local copy of the repository

import os
os.chdir('/path/to/repository/on/your/pc')

and run the test cases:

execfile('test1.py')
execfile('test2.py')
execfile('test3.py')

The log files are saved to the "logs" directory within your local repository.

A simple HTN planning system written in Python

Copyright 2013 Dana S. Nau - http://www.cs.umd.edu/~nau

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Pyhop is a simple HTN planner written in Python. It works in both Python 2.7 and 3.2.

Pyhop was easy to implement (less than 150 lines of code), and if you understand the basic ideas of HTN planning (this presentation contains a quick summary), Pyhop should be easy to understand.

Pyhop's planning algorithm is like the one in SHOP, but with several differences that should make it easier to integrate it with ordinary computer programs:

• Pyhop represents states of the world using ordinary variable bindings, not logical propositions. A state is just a Python object that contains the variable bindings. For example, you might write s.loc['v'] = 'd' to say that vehicle v is at location d in state s.

• To write HTN operators and methods for Pyhop, you don't need to learn a specialized planning language. Instead, you write them as ordinary Python functions. The current state (e.g., s in the above example) is passed to them as an argument.