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— This paper presents a visual attention mechanism for the acquisition of landmarks in an arbitrary scene. The proposed mechanism consists of two consecutive selection stages. Th...
— This paper proposes a high-level Reinforcement Learning (RL) control system for solving the action selection problem of an autonomous robot. Although the dominant approach, whe...
— This article addresses the problem of autonomous map building and exploration of an unknown environment with mobile robots. The proposed method assumes that mobile robots use o...
— We explore the interconnection between search and action in the context of mobile robotics. The task of searching for an object and then performing some action with that object...
Geoffrey Hollinger, Dave Ferguson, Siddhartha Srin...