How to learn artificial intelligence planning?

The University of Edinburgh is providing a six week long online course called "Artificial Intelligence Planning," that will begin from January 13th 2014.

About the Course:
The course aims to provide a foundation in artificial intelligence techniques for planning, with an overview of the wide spectrum of different problems and approaches, including their underlying theory and their applications. It will allow you to:

Understand different planning problems
Have the basic know how to design and implement AI planning systems
Know how to use AI planning technology for projects in different application domains
Have the ability to make use of AI planning literature

How to learn artificial intelligence planning?

Planning is a fundamental part of intelligent systems. In this course, for example, you will learn the basic algorithms that are used in robots to make them carry out a task as per the instructions provided. Simpler, reactive robots don't need this, but if a robot is to act intelligently, this type of reasoning about actions is vital.

Recommended Background:
The course is at an introductory level, but you will need a basic understanding of logic. Optional programming assignments require programming skills.

Gerhard Wickler and Austin Tate will be the course instructors. The course will have workload of 3-8 hours/week, it will be taught in English and subtitles will be available in English.

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