AIMA Artificial Intelligence a modern approch

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Exercise 11.1

The goals we have considered so far all ask the planner to make the world satisfy the goal at just one time step. Not all goals can be expressed this way: you do not achieve the goal of suspending a chandelier above the ground by throwing it in the air. More seriously, you wouldn’t want your spacecraft life-support system to supply oxygen one day but not the next. A maintenance goal is achieved when the agent’s plan causes a condition to hold continuously from a given state onward. Describe how to extend the formalism of this chapter to support maintenance goals.

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