Action description language

Action description language (ADL) is a planning system in particular for robots. It is considered an advancement of STRIPS.The sense of a planning language is it to represent certain conditions in the environment and on it based automates a succession from actions to determine, which lead to a desired goal. A goal is thereby a certainly partial spezifierter condition. So that an action can be implemented, certain preconditions must be fulfilled; after the execution the action has effects, by which the environment changes. The environment is described thereby by means of certain descriptors, which either fulfilled or fulfilled are not.
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