Congratulations to Hanna Kurniawati and Sylvie Thiebaux on receiving ARC funding for their project Integrated Planning for Uncertainty-Centric Pilot Assistance Systems!
Read MoreAssoc Prof Hanna Kurniawati has received an ARC grant!
Read MorePlanning under partial obervability is essential for autonomous robots. A principled way to address such planning problems is the Partially Observable Markov Decision Process (POMDP). Although solving POMDPs is computationally intractable, substantial advancements have been achieved in developing approximate POMDP solvers in the past two decades. However, computing robust solutions for problems with continuous observation spaces remains challenging. Most on-line solvers rely on discretising the observation space or artificially limiting the number of observations that are considered during planning to compute tractable policies. In this paper we propose a new on-line POMDP solver, called Lazy Belief Extraction for Continuous POMDPs (LABECOP), that combines methods from Monte-Carlo-Tree-Search and particle filtering to construct a policy reprentation which doesn't require discretised observation spaces and avoids limiting the number of observations considered during planning. Experiments on three different problems involving continuous observation spaces indicate that LABECOP performs similar or better than state-of-the-art POMDP solvers.
Read MoreCongratulations to Hanna Kurniawati and her co-writers David Hsu and Wee Sun Lee (NUS) on being awarded this years RSS Test of Time Award!
Read MorePresent some of our work in developing practical solvers for the Partially Observable Markov Decision Process (POMDP) with applications in robotics. I enjoy the discussion in the seminar.
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