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COLT
1991
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
The Role of Learning in Autonomous Robots
Applications of learning to autonomous agents (simulated or real) have often been restricted to learning a mapping from perceived state of the world to the next action to take. Of...
Rodney A. Brooks
IJRR
2002
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13 years 7 months ago
Navigation Strategies for Exploring Indoor Environments
This paper investigates safe and efficient map-building strategies for a mobile robot with imperfect control and sensing. In the implementation, a robot equipped with a range sens...
Héctor H. González-Baños, Jea...
KBS
2006
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13 years 7 months ago
Robot docking based on omnidirectional vision and reinforcement learning
We present a system for visual robotic docking using an omnidirectional camera coupled with the actor critic reinforcement learning algorithm. The system enables a PeopleBot robot...
David Muse, Cornelius Weber, Stefan Wermter
ICRA
2006
IEEE
75views Robotics» more  ICRA 2006»
14 years 1 months ago
Thinning-based Topological Exploration using Position Probability of Topological Nodes
- Exploration is the fundamental task of guiding a robot autonomously during mapping so that it covers the entire environment with its sensors. In the frontier-based exploration, a...
Tae-Bum Kwon, Jae-Bok Song
IROS
2007
IEEE
169views Robotics» more  IROS 2007»
14 years 1 months ago
A lightweight SLAM algorithm using Orthogonal planes for indoor mobile robotics
— Simple, fast and lightweight SLAM algorithms are necessary in many embedded robotic systems which soon will be used in houses and offices in order to do various service tasks....
Viet Nguyen, Ahad Harati, Roland Siegwart