Global Navigation of Assistant Robots using Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes
María Elena, Rafael Barea, Luís Miguel, Manuel Ocaña, María Soledad · 2007
In the last years, one of the applications of service robots with a greater social impact has been the assistance to elderly or disabled people. In these applications, assistant robots must robustly navigate in structured indoor environments such as hospitals, nursing homes or houses, heading from room to room to carry out different nursing or service tasks.