Recent research has demonstrated that useful POMDP solutions do not require consideration of the entire belief space. We extend this idea with the notion of temporal abstraction. ...
In field environments it is not usually possible to provide robots in advance with valid geometric models of its environment and task element locations. The robot or robot teams ne...
— A long cherished goal in artificial intelligence has been the ability to endow a robot with the capacity to learn and generalize skills from watching a human teacher. Such an ...
—The learning from observation (LFO) paradigm has been widely applied in various types of robot systems. It helps reduce the work of the programmer. However, the applications of ...
Takuma Morita, Jun Takamatsu, Koichi Ogawara, Hiro...
— Probabilistic sampling-based motion planners are unable to detect when no feasible path exists. A common heuristic is to declare a query infeasible if a path is not found in a ...
Kris K. Hauser, Timothy Bretl, Jean-Claude Latombe