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Integrating Distributed Bayesian Inference and Reinforcement Learning for Sensor Management

Corrado Grappiolo, Shimon Whiteson, Gregor Pavlin, and Bram Bakker. Integrating Distributed Bayesian Inference and Reinforcement Learning for Sensor Management. In FUSION 2009: Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Information Fusion, pp. 93–101, July 2009.

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Abstract

This paper introduces a sensor management approach that integrates distributed Bayesian inference (DBI) and reinforcement learning (RL). DBI is implemented using distributed perception networks (DPNs), a multiagent approach to performing efficient inference, while RL is used to automatically discover a mapping from the beliefs generated by the DPNs to the actions that enable active sensors to gather the most useful observations. The resulting method is evaluated on a simulation of a chemical leak localization task and the results demonstrate 1) that the integrated approach can learn policies that perform effective sensor management, 2) that inference based on a correct observation model, which the DPNs make feasible, is critical to performance, and 3) that the system scales to larger versions of the task.

BibTeX Entry

@InProceedings{grappiolo:fusion09,
  author       = "Corrado Grappiolo and Shimon Whiteson and Gregor Pavlin and Bram Bakker",
  title	       = "Integrating Distributed {B}ayesian Inference and Reinforcement  Learning for Sensor Management",
  booktitle    = "FUSION 2009: Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Information Fusion",
  month	       = "July",
  pages            = "93-101",
  year	       = 2009,
}

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