Action subservient sensing and design - Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University

Action subservient sensing and design

Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Vol. 2, pp. 592 - 598, May, 1993

Abstract

A method is outlined for automatically designing sensors from the specification of a robot's task, its actions, and its uncertainty in control. The sensors provide precisely the information required by the robot to perform its task, despite uncertainty in sensing and control. The key idea is to generate a strategy for a robot task by using a backchaining planner that assumes perfect sensing while taking careful account of control uncertainty. The resulting plan indirectly specifies a sensor that tells the robot when to execute which action. Although the planner assumes perfect sensing information, the sensor need not actually provide perfect information. The sensor provides only the information required for the plan to function correctly.

BibTeX

@conference{Erdmann-1993-13498,
author = {Michael Erdmann},
title = {Action subservient sensing and design},
booktitle = {Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation},
year = {1993},
month = {May},
volume = {2},
pages = {592 - 598},
}