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Envelope-based Planning in Relational MDPs Speaker: Natalia Hernandez Gardiol , Learning Intelligent Systems - CSAIL A mobile robot acting in the world is faced with a large amount of sensory data and uncertainty in its action outcomes. Indeed, almost all interesting sequential decision-making domains involve large state spaces and large, stochastic action sets. We investigate a way to act intelligently as quickly as possible in domains where finding a complete policy would take a hopelessly long time. This approach, Relational Envelope-based Planning, tackles large, noisy problems along two axes. First, describing a domain as a relational MDP allows problem structure and dynamics to be captured compactly with a small set of probabilistic, relational rules. Second, an envelope-based approach to planning lets an agent begin acting quickly within a restricted part of the full state space and to judiciously expand its envelope as resources permit. See other events that are part of CSAIL Student Seminar Fall 2003 |
