Mode reconstruction for source coding and multi-modal control

Abstract

In this paper we take the point of view that control procedures have an information theoretic content that can be more or less effectively coded. Of particular interest are control procedures for navigation and obstacle avoidance for mobile robots, and we show how tokenized instructions can be used for understanding how computer generated inputs to robotics systems should be defined, selected, and coded. To this end, a dynamic programming algorithm is developed for generating control procedures that are useful in given robotics applications. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2003.