Automated Verification of Propositional Agent Abstraction for Classical Planning via CTLK Model Checking

Abstract

Abstraction has long been an effective mechanism to help find a solution in classical planning. Agent abstraction, based on the situation calculus, is a promising explainable framework for agent planning, yet its automation is still far from being tackled. In this paper, we focus on a propositional version of agent abstraction designed for finite-state systems. We investigate the automated verification of the existence of propositional agent abstraction, given a finite-state system and a mapping indicating an abstraction for it. By formalizing sound, complete and deterministic properties of abstractions in a general framework, we show that the verification task can be reduced to the task of model checking against CTLK specifications. We implemented a prototype system, and validated the viability of our approach through experimentation on several domains from classical planning.