I am responsible for the scheduler, which is the centralized planner that orchestrates all garage operations. I started work at Volley Automation in January of 2021, a startup working on fully automated parking garages. While search problems are not front and center in Algorithms for Decision Making, I did end up writing an appendix chapter on them, and looking back on it see how well comparatively the thesis covers the space. The thesis serves as a great background for search in general, that is, whenever one wants to find the best sequence of deterministic transitions to some goal state. At that time I stumbled upon Solving Sokoban by Timo Virkkala, a great Master’s Thesis that covers the basics of the game and the basics used by many solvers.
