Modelling spatial knowledge

  • Authors:
  • Benjamin Kuipers

  • Affiliations:
  • The Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts

  • Venue:
  • IJCAI'77 Proceedings of the 5th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 1
  • Year:
  • 1977

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Abstract

A person's cognitive map, or knowledge of large-scale space, is built up from observations gathered as he travels through the environment. It acts as a problem-solver to find routes and relative positions, as well as describing the current location. The TOUR model describes the multiple representations that make up the cognitive map, the problem-solving strategies it uses, and the mechanisms for assimilating new information. The representations have rich collections of states of partial knowledge, which support many of the attractive qualities of common-sense knowledge.