Abstract
Planning and navigation algorithms exploit statistics gleaned from uncertain, imperfect real-world environments to guide robots toward their goals and around obstacles.
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Artificial intelligenceRoboticsComputer scienceProbabilistic logicRobot
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- 2002
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- article
- Volume
- 45
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 52-57
- Citations
- 7877
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Sebastian Thrun
(2002).
Probabilistic robotics.
Communications of the ACM
, 45
(3)
, 52-57.
https://doi.org/10.1145/504729.504754
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- DOI
- 10.1145/504729.504754