The blocks world is one of the most famous planning domains in artificial intelligence.
blocks world a microworld used in early A.I. research, involving the perception, manipulation, or planning for manipulation of toy blocks on a table.
SHRDLU lived in a world called Blocks World. It had in its memory descriptions of various blocks: shapes, colours, sizes and positions.
An often cited example of a planning domain is the infamous blocks world, a model of stacks of blocks on an infinite table." "Scheduling is the problem of assigning a set of tasks to a set of resources subject to a set of constraints.
Our main experimental subject worlds, namely the "blocks world" robotics environment and the children's story environment, are better suited to these studies than are the puzzle, game, ...
The user instructed SHRDLU to move various objects around in a small "blocks world" containing various basic objects: blocks, cones, balls, etc.
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