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Robotics Institute
Seminar, November 5
Time
and Place | Seminar Abstract | Speaker
Biography | Speaker Appointments
Information Spaces: They’re
Everywhere!
Department of Computer Science
University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Time and Place |
Mauldin Auditorium (NSH 1305)
Refreshments 3:15 pm
Talk 3:30 pm
Planning
and control problems that involve sensing uncertainty naturally live in an
information space. The concept arose in the
context of game theory and stochastic control, and has appeared as belief
spaces in AI literature (POMDPs). Just
as configuration spaces have been important for unifying virtually all path
planning problems and approaches, information spaces can serve the same purpose
for problems that involve sensing uncertainty.
This talk will present a unified perspective on information spaces. Following this, many examples will be drawn
from our work, and the works of others, to illustrate the power and importance
of reasoning in terms of information spaces.
The key to numerous successful approaches has been to characterize and
simplify the information space in some way. Examples include sensorless
manipulation, the Kalman filter, pursuit-evasion, and on-line navigation.
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Speaker Biography |
Steven M. LaValle is an Associate Professor in the
Dept. of Computer Science at the
For appointments, please contact Jean Harpley.
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Related Material |
- Planning Algorithms book
- Presentation (pdf)
The Robotics Institute is part of the School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University.