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The goal-directed navigational ability of animals is an essential prerequisite for them to survive. They can learn to navigate to a distal goal in a complex environment. During this long-distance navigation, they exploit environmental features, like landmarks, to guide them towards their goal. Inspired by this, we develop an adaptive landmark-based navigation system based on sequential reinforcement learning. In addition, correlation-based learning is also integrated into the system to improve learning performance. The proposed system has been applied to simulated simple wheeled and more complex hexapod robots. As a result, it allows the robots to successfully learn to navigate to distal goals in complex environments.
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Zeidan, B., Dasgupta, S., Wörgötter, F., Manoonpong, P. (2014). Adaptive Landmark-Based Navigation System Using Learning Techniques. In: del Pobil, A.P., Chinellato, E., Martinez-Martin, E., Hallam, J., Cervera, E., Morales, A. (eds) From Animals to Animats 13. SAB 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8575. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08864-8_12
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