Akanyeti, Otar, Kyriacou, Theocharis ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5211-3686, Nehmzow, Ulrich, Iglesias, Roberto and Billings, SA (2007) Visual task identification and characterization using polynomial models. Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 55 (9). pp. 711-719.

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Abstract

Developing robust and reliable control code for autonomous mobile robots is difficult, because the interaction between a physical robot and the environment is highly complex, subject to noise and variation, and therefore partly unpredictable. This means that to date it is not possible to predict robot behaviour based on theoretical models. Instead, current methods to develop robot control code still require a substantial trial-and-error component to the software design process.
This paper proposes a method of dealing with these issues by (a) establishing task-achieving sensor-motor couplings through robot training, and (b) representing these couplings through transparent mathematical functions that can be used to form hypotheses and theoretical analyses of robot behaviour.
We demonstrate the viability of this approach by teaching a mobile robot to track a moving football and subsequently modelling this task using the NARMAX system identification technique.

Item Type:	Article
Status:	Published
DOI:	10.1016/j.robot.2007.05.016
School/Department:	York Business School
URI:	https://ray.yorksj.ac.uk/id/eprint/13131

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