Michael Katz           

Mercury is a classical planner - a solver for classical (deterministic) planning tasks specified in PDDL 3.1.

It is an open source planner, built on top of the Fast Downward planning system. The source code is available here.

Running the planner:

• To build the planner run ./build
• To run the planner use ./plan <DOMAIN> <PROBLEM> <PLAN_FILE>

PDDL examples can be found at https://bitbucket.org/aibasel/downward-benchmarks

Mercury has won two awards at the 2014 International Planning Competition:

1. Runner-up of the Deterministic Sequential Track 
2. Innovative Planner Award

Papers:

• Mercury Planner: Pushing the Limits of Partial Delete Relaxation
  M Katz, J Hoffmann
  Eighth International Planning Competition (IPC 2014)
• Red-black planning: a new systematic approach to partial delete relaxation
  C Domshlak, J Hoffmann, M Katz
  Artificial Intelligence 221 (April 2015), 73–114
• Who said we need to relax all variables?
  M Katz, J Hoffmann, C Domshlak
  23rd International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS 2013)
• Red-Black Relaxed Plan Heuristics
  M Katz, J Hoffmann, C Domshlak
  27th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2013)
• Red-Black Relaxed Plan Heuristics Reloaded
  M Katz, J Hoffmann
  Sixth Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Search (SoCS 2013)
• Pushing the Limits of Partial Delete Relaxation: Red-Black DAG Heuristics
  M Katz, J Hoffmann
  Heuristics and Search for Domain Independent Planning (HSDIP 2014)