Robot docking based on omnidirectional vision and reinforcement learning

Knowledge-Based Systems

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 324-332

  Muse, David ^a   Weber, Cornelius ^a   Wermter, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUNDERLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Neural networks; Reinforcement learning; Robot control; Robotics

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; COMPUTER VISION; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; NEURAL NETWORKS; PROBLEM SOLVING; ROBOTICS; SENSORS;

OMNIDIRECTIONAL CAMERA; RANDOM WANDERING; REINFORCEMENT LEARNING; ROBOT CONTROL;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 33747051489     PISSN: 09507051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.knosys.2005.11.018     Document Type: Article

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