Title: Reliable plan selection by intelligent machines
First published: 1995
Description: This book derives techniques which allow reliable plans to be automatically selected by intelligent machines. It concentrates on the uncertainty analysis of candidate plans so that a highly reliable candidate may be identified and used. For robotic components, such as a particular vision algorithm for pose estimation or a joint controller, methods are explained for directly calculating the reliability.

However, these methods become excessively complex when several components are used together to complete a plan. Consequently, entropy minimization techniques are used to estimate which complex tasks will be performed reliably. The book first develops tools for directly calculating the reliability of sub-systems, and methods of using entropy minimization to greatly facilitate the analysis are explained.

Since these sub-systems are used together to accomplish complex tasks, the book then explains how complex tasks can be efficiently evaluated.
Subjects: Intelligent control systems, Reliability (Engineering), Robotics
LC classification: TJ217.5 .M34 1995