Ruowei Sun

Di erent from existing reinforcement learning algorithms that generate only reactive policies and existing probabilis tic planning algorithms that requires a substantial amount of a priori knowledge in order to plan we devise a two stage bottom up learning to plan process in which rst reinforce ment learning dynamic programming is applied without the use of a priori domain speci c knowledge to acquire a reactive policy and then explicit plans are extracted from the learned reactive policy Plan extraction is based on a beam search algorithm that performs temporal projection in a restricted fashion guided by the value functions re sulting from reinforcement learning dynamic programming Experiments and theoretical analysis are presented..