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ANTSW
2010
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
Self-organized Task Partitioning in a Swarm of Robots
Abstract. In this work, we propose a method for self-organized adaptive task partitioning in a swarm of robots. Task partitioning refers to the decomposition of a task into less co...
Marco Frison, Nam-Luc Tran, Nadir Baiboun, Arne Br...
NIPS
2001
13 years 10 months ago
Variance Reduction Techniques for Gradient Estimates in Reinforcement Learning
Policy gradient methods for reinforcement learning avoid some of the undesirable properties of the value function approaches, such as policy degradation (Baxter and Bartlett, 2001...
Evan Greensmith, Peter L. Bartlett, Jonathan Baxte...
INFORMATICALT
2010
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13 years 7 months ago
An Improved Differential Evolution Scheme for the Solution of Large-Scale Unit Commitment Problems
This paper presents an improved differential evolution (IDE) method for the solution of large-scale unit commitment (UC) problems. The objective of the proposed scheme is to determ...
Chen-Sung Chang
AUTOMATICA
2011
13 years 4 months ago
Sequential linear quadratic control of bilinear parabolic PDEs based on POD model reduction
We present a framework to solve a finite-time optimal control problem for parabolic partial differential equations (PDEs) with diffusivity-interior actuators, which is motivate...
Chao Xu, Yongsheng Ou, Eugenio Schuster
ICRA
2005
IEEE
118views Robotics» more  ICRA 2005»
14 years 2 months ago
Planning for Steerable Bevel-tip Needle Insertion Through 2D Soft Tissue with Obstacles
— We explore motion planning for a new class of highly flexible bevel-tip medical needles that can be steered to previously unreachable targets in soft tissue. Planning for thes...
Ron Alterovitz, Kenneth Y. Goldberg, Allison M. Ok...