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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Year
2002
Type
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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10.1145/504729.504754