Representing and Selecting Landmarks in Autonomous Learning of Robot Navigation

  • Authors:
  • Lutz Frommberger

  • Affiliations:
  • SFB/TR 8 Spatial Cognition Project R3-[Q-Shape] Universität Bremen, Bremen, Germany 28359

  • Venue:
  • ICIRA '08 Proceedings of the First International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications: Part I
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Navigation based on detected landmarks is an important facet of robot navigation. This work investigates into a qualitative representation of landmarks for an autonomous learning task where a robot learns a goal directed navigation strategy with reinforcement learning. We discuss how to build a suitable landmark-based representation. In particular, we focus on selection of landmarks to regard when experiencing a multitude of landmarks, because representing all of them would blow up the state space inappropriately. Thus, we examine strategies for this selection. Furthermore, we introduce a background knowledge based structure-aware landmark selection mechanism to limit landmark observation to the cases where it is really needed.