Which landmark is useful? Learning selection policies for navigation in unknown environments

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1410-1415

  Strasdat, Hauke ^a,b   Stachniss, Cyrill ^a   Burgard, Wolfram ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; AIR NAVIGATION; NAVIGATION; REINFORCEMENT LEARNING;

AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS; COMPUTATIONAL BURDEN; LANDMARK SELECTION; LEARNING SELECTION; MEMORY CONSTRAINTS; SELECTION POLICIES; SIMULTANEOUS LOCALIZATION AND MAPPING PROBLEMS; UNSCENTED KALMAN FILTER;

SOCIAL ROBOTS;

EID: 76249100986     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2009.5152207     Document Type: Conference Paper

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