AIPS
2009
13 years 5 months ago
2009
Recent research in robot exploration and mapping has focused on sampling environmental hotspot fields. This exploration task is formalized by Low, Dolan, and Khosla (2008) in a se...
AIPS
2009
13 years 5 months ago
2009
We provide a theoretical analysis of planning via Petri net unfolding, a novel technique for synthesising parallel plans. Parallel plans are generally valued for their execution f...
AIPS
2009
13 years 5 months ago
2009
Dynamic plan execution strategies allow an autonomous agent to respond to uncertainties while improving robustness and reducing the need for an overly conservative plan. Executive...
AIPS
2009
13 years 5 months ago
2009
In this paper we extend dynamic controllability of temporally-flexible plans to temporally-flexible reactive programs. We consider three reactive programming language constructs w...
AIPS
2009
13 years 5 months ago
2009
A planning problem is k-dependent if each action has at most k pre-conditions on variables unaffected by the action. This concept is well-founded since k is a constant for all but...
AIPS
2009
13 years 5 months ago
2009
AIPS
2009
13 years 5 months ago
2009
Finite-state and memoryless controllers are simple action selection mechanisms widely used in domains such as videogames and mobile robotics. Memoryless controllers stand for func...
AIPS
2009
13 years 5 months ago
2009
AIPS
2009
13 years 5 months ago
2009
Nowadays many urban areas have been equipped with networks of surveillance cameras, which can be used for automatic localization and tracking of people. However, given the large r...
AIPS
2009
13 years 5 months ago
2009
Probabilistic Roadmaps (PRM) are a commonly used class of algorithms for robot navigation tasks where obstacles are present in the environment. We examine the situation where the ...