Observability and policy optimization for mobile robots

Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control

Volumn 4, Issue , 2002, Pages 3596-3601

  Egerstedt, Magnus ^a   Hristu Varsakelis, Dimitrios ^b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; FINITE AUTOMATA; GRAPH THEORY; MARKOV PROCESSES; MOBILE ROBOTS; MOTION CONTROL; MOTION PLANNING; OPTIMIZATION; SYSTEM THEORY; UNCERTAIN SYSTEMS;

DIRECTED GRAPH; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; POLICY OPTIMIZATION; SHORTEST NAVIGATION POLICY;

OBSERVABILITY;

EID: 0036994152     PISSN: 01912216     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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