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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ROBOTICS RESEARCH
Volume 27, Issue 2, Pages 175-196Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/0278364907087426
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reinforcement learning; trajectory optimization; exploration
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Automatically building maps from sensor data is a necessary and fundamental skill for mobile robots; as a result, considerable research attention has focused on the technical challenges inherent in the mapping problem. While statistical inference techniques have led to computationally efficient mapping algorithms, the next major challenge in robotic mapping is to automate the data collection process. In this paper, we address the problem of how a robot should plan to explore an unknown environment and collect data in order to maximize the accuracy of the resulting map. We formulate exploration as a constrained optimization problem and use reinforcement learning to find trajectories that lead to accurate maps. We demonstrate this process in simulation and show that the learned policy not only results in improved map building, but that the learned policy also transfers successfully to a real robot exploring on MIT campus.
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