Repeatability of real world training experiments: A case study

Autonomous Robots

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 281-292

  Hougen, Dean F ^a   Rybski, Paul E ^a,b,c   Gini, Maria ^a  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; MOBILE ROBOTS; NEURAL NETWORKS;

REINFORCEMENT LEARNING;

ROBOT LEARNING;

EID: 0032666179     PISSN: 09295593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008984312527     Document Type: Article

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