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  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Cognitive Science

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  • Decision-making algorithms often fail in real-world robotics due to violated assumptions and external pressures.
  • Humans effectively navigate uncertainty by balancing optimal and heuristic strategies, utilizing environmental cues.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a general approach for active perception solutions for robots operating under pressure.
  • To investigate and model how robots can modulate between optimal and heuristic decision-making.

Main Methods:

  • Simulated 'treasure hunt' problems in virtual worlds to learn generalizable strategies.
  • Developed active perception algorithms for camera-equipped robots.
  • Tested algorithms in high-fidelity numerical simulations and physical experiments.

Main Results:

  • The new active perception algorithms outperformed existing methods (cell decomposition, information roadmap, information potential) in the 'treasure hunt' benchmark.
  • Algorithms demonstrated effectiveness under unanticipated conditions like time constraints, resource limitations, and adverse weather (fog).

Conclusions:

  • The developed active perception strategies enable robots to adapt their decision-making, successfully completing tasks in challenging, dynamic environments.
  • This approach offers a robust solution for real-world robotic applications where environmental models are incomplete or pressures are high.