Running JADE under Eclipse

JADE can be run under eclipse ‘Run’ as ‘Java Application’.  Before you setup the execution environment for JADE,  you should add JADE’s .jar files to your project:

1. go to Project -> Properties
2. move to Java Build Path
3. in the “Libraries” tab, press “Add External  JARs” button
4. Select all the JADE’s jar files in “Orders and Export” tab

After you setup the classpath for JADE.  You can create a “Run Configuration” for running JADE:

1. go to Run -> Run Configurations
2. move to Java Application
3. in the “main” tab
4. specify your project name, and
5. main class is jade.Boot, and
6. check the Include libraries when searching for a main class

In the Tab “argument”, program arguments is the arguments that would be used in command line, for example :

-gui jade.Boot [agent_nickname1:java_package1.agent_class1 agent_nickname2:java_package2.agent_class2 ...]

Where the agent_nickname is the nickname for your agent, java_package is the package of your agent, and agent_class is the java class name of your agent.

javax.comm & GPS

The GPS data can be transferred to a computer serial port, i.e. COM port. Many GPS support bluetooth can transmit data from GPS to PC COM port without physical connection. There are GPS monitors (or NMEA monitors) can verify the connection between GPS and the laptop.

In order to receive the GPS data, we should add external Java package and files. There are the following:

1. comm.jar: Java Communications 3.0 API, also known as javax.comm (javadoc, API user guide)
2. javax.comm.properties: property file of comm.jar
3. win32com.dll: Microsoft Windows dynamic link library for data communication

The Sun Java Communications web site does not contain the .properties and .dll files, you can download the files from this site (.zip). Assume that the JDK has been installed in <JDK_HOME>.

• Move win32com.dll to <JDK_HOME>\jre\bin
• Move javax.comm.properties to <JDK_HOME>\jre\lib

You can also refer to reference:

• Java Bluetooth HOWTO.
• Bluetooth Stack
  • JavaBluetooth
  • Harald
• Accessing GPS receiver from mobile phone via bluetooth.

Lecture Notes in AI Planning

Lecture Notes

• Planning, Execution, and Learning taught by Manuela M. Veloso at CMU, Fall, 2008.
• AI Planning taught by Dana S. Nau at University of Maryland, Spring, 2007. This course use the Automated Planning: theory and practice as textbook.
  • Classical Planning
  • Complexity of Classical Planning
  • State-Space Planning
  • Plan-Space Planning
  • Planning-Graph Techniques
• AI Planning in AI course by Alison Cawasey at Heriot Watt University, 2007.
• AI Planning given by Mathijs de Weerdt at Delt University of Technology, 2005.
• AI Planning course taught by Meirav Hadad at Haifa University, 2005.
• AI Planning taught by Jim BlytheJose-Luis Ambite, and Yolanda Gil at University of Southern California’s Information Sciences Institute, 2003.
  • Plan generation, Plan space, and causal-link planning, UCPOP
  • GraphPlan
• AI lecture notes by Bruce Randall Donald at Dartmouth Computer Science , 1998.
  • Planning study guide: an introduction of planning systems, types of planner, like as logic planners, non-hierarchical/hierarchical non-linear/linear planners. Issues and timeline of planners have been given in this literature.
  • UCPOP background: a summary of the Daniel Weld article.
• Cognitive Oriented AI
  • Basic AI planning: STRIPS, state-space model, planning algorithms (forward/backward (or regression) planning)
  • Planning-graph techniques: Deductive planning, situation calculus, GraphPlan

AI Planner Collections by Robert St. Amant in North Carolina State University, this site has been moved to AIwiki site.