Decentralized reinforcement learning control of a robotic manipulator

9th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision, 2006, ICARCV '06

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Buşoniu, Lucian ^a   De Schutter, Bart ^a   Babuška, Robert ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Decentralized control; Multi agent learning; Reinforcement learning

Indexed keywords

DECENTRALIZED CONTROL; MOBILE ROBOTS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; REINFORCEMENT LEARNING; ROBOTICS; TELECOMMUNICATION;

MULTI-AGENT CONTROL; MULTI-AGENT LEARNING; RIGID MANIPULATORS;

REDUNDANT MANIPULATORS;

EID: 34547223380     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICARCV.2006.345351     Document Type: Conference Paper

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