Advances in Plan-Based Control of Robotic Agents

Michael Beetz

ISBN 10: 3540001689 / ISBN 13: 9783540001683

Published by Springer, Springer Nov 2002, 2002

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This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -In recent years, autonomous robots, including Xavier, Martha [1], Rhino [2,3], Minerva,and Remote Agent, have shown impressive performance in long-term demonstrations. In NASA¿s Deep Space program, for example, an - tonomous spacecraft controller, called the Remote Agent [5], has autonomously performed a scienti c experiment in space. At Carnegie Mellon University, Xavier [6], another autonomous mobile robot, navigated through an o ce - vironment for more than a year, allowing people to issue navigation commands and monitor their execution via the Internet. In 1998, Minerva [7] acted for 13 days as a museum tourguide in the Smithsonian Museum, and led several thousand people through an exhibition. These autonomous robots have in common that they rely on plan-based c- trol in order to achieve better problem-solving competence. In the plan-based approach, robots generate control actions by maintaining and executing a plan that is e ective and has a high expected utility with respect to the robots¿ c- rent goals and beliefs. Plans are robot control programs that a robot can not only execute but also reason about and manipulate [4]. Thus, a plan-based c- troller is able to manage and adapt the robot¿s intended course of action ¿ the plan ¿ while executing it and can thereby better achieve complex and changing tasks.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 304 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Advances in Plan-Based Control of Robotic Agents
• Publisher: Springer, Springer Nov 2002
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3540001689
• ISBN 13: 9783540001683
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 235W x 155H x 17D millimeters 235 millimeters width by 155 millimeters height by 17 millimeters depth
• Weight: 464 grams

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In recent years, autonomous robots, including Xavier, Martha [1], Rhino [2,3], Minerva,and Remote Agent, have shown impressive performance in long-term demonstrations. In NASA’s Deep Space program, for example, an - tonomous spacecraft controller, called the Remote Agent [5], has autonomously performed a scienti?c experiment in space. At Carnegie Mellon University, Xavier [6], another autonomous mobile robot, navigated through an o?ce - vironment for more than a year, allowing people to issue navigation commands and monitor their execution via the Internet. In 1998, Minerva [7] acted for 13 days as a museum tourguide in the Smithsonian Museum, and led several thousand people through an exhibition. These autonomous robots have in common that they rely on plan-based c- trol in order to achieve better problem-solving competence. In the plan-based approach, robots generate control actions by maintaining and executing a plan that is e?ective and has a high expected utility with respect to the robots’ c- rent goals and beliefs. Plans are robot control programs that a robot can not only execute but also reason about and manipulate [4]. Thus, a plan-based c- troller is able to manage and adapt the robot’s intended course of action ― the plan ― while executing it and can thereby better achieve complex and changing tasks.