Modular reinforcement learning: An application to a real robot task

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 1545, Issue , 1998, Pages 29-45

  Kalmár, Zsolt ^a   Szepesvári, Csaba ^b   Lőrincz, András ^c  

^a Dept Of Informatics JATE ^*  (Hungary)

^b JATE   (Hungary)

^c Institute of Isotopes   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLERS; MACHINE LEARNING; MARKOV PROCESSES; ROBOTS;

ACTION SPACES; DESIGN CONTROLLERS; DISCRETE TIME; MODEL BASED APPROACH; MODULAR REINFORCEMENT LEARNING; OPERATING CONDITION; SWITCHING STRATEGIES; SYSTEMATIC DESIGN METHODS;

REINFORCEMENT LEARNING;

EID: 84878320217     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-49240-2_3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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