Title
Semi-task-dependent and uncertainty-driven world model maintenance
Abstract
Nearly every task a domestic robot could potentially solve requires a description of the robot's environment which we call a world model. One problem underexposed in the literature is the maintenance of world models. Rather than on creating a world model, this work focuses on finding a strategy that determines when to update which object in the world model. The decision whether or not to update an object is based on the expected information gain obtained by the update, the action cost of the update and the task the robot performs. The proposed strategy is validated during both simulations and real world experiments. The extended series of simulations is performed to show both the performance gain with respect to a benchmark strategy and the effect of the various parameters. The experiments show the proposed approach on different set-ups and in different environments.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1007/s10514-014-9393-0
Auton. Robots
Keywords
Field
DocType
Task dependency,World model verification,Information gain
Simulation,Computer science,Information gain,Domestic robot,Artificial intelligence,Task dependency,Robot
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
38
1
0929-5593
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.35
26
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
J. Elfring1463.53
René van de Molengraft219423.48
Maarten Steinbuch365896.53