The AGILO robot soccer team - Experience-based learning and probabilistic reasoning in autonomous robot control

Autonomous Robots

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 55-77

  Beetz, Michael ^a   Schmitt, Thorsten ^a   Hanek, Robert ^a   Buck, Sebastian ^a   Stulp, Freek ^a   Schröter, Derik ^a   Radig, Bernd ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Action selection and planning; And action; Coordination of perception; Integration and coordination of multiple activities; Reasoning

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER VISION; INTEGRATION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; PROBABILITY; SENSORS; STATE ESTIMATION;

ACTION SELECTION AND PLANNING; COORDINATION OF MULTIPLE ACTIVITIES; COORDINATION OF PERCEPTION;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 3142708107     PISSN: 09295593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:AURO.0000032938.72058.61     Document Type: Article

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