• Author: Tomáš Hurt (hurthys@seznam.cz)

PAD Framework is an open source planning framework under GNU GPL license.

The purpose of PAD Framework is to provide an efficient tool for the development and testing of new algorithms in the research area of automated planning. It supports the two most popular input formalisms for the description of planning problems (PDDL and SAS⁺), while allowing to use an internal planner using heuristic search approach. The framework is implemented in C# and .NET environment.

PAD Framework consists of 4 primary projects:

• PAD.InputData -- provides loaders and validators of PDDL 3.1 and SAS⁺ input data into encapsulated data structures; can be used independently from the rest of the framework,
• PAD.Planner -- provides planner with the heuristic search engine, implementing A Search*, Beam Search and Hill-Climbing Search, including implementations of many heuristics and heap data structures,
• PAD.Launcher -- provides components for automated parallel execution of planning task batches, allowing parametrized definition of planning tasks via configuration file,
• PAD.Tests -- provides validation of all critical components of the framework via a big suite of unit tests and black-box batch tests; containing many test-cases from the IPC (International Planning Competition)

• You need at least Visual Studio 2015 Community and .NET Framework 4.5.2.
• Just use the solution file .\PAD.sln, or import subset of the projects to your own solution.
• Alternatively, use Mono project to compile C# sources under Linux environment.

• Irony 0.9.1
• Irony.Interpreter 0.9.1
• SoftUni.Wintellect.PowerCollections

PAD Framework 1.0.0 - January 2, 2020

• initialization of the repository