Date of Award:
5-2011
Document Type:
Thesis
Degree Name:
Master of Science (MS)
Department:
Plants, Soils, and Climate
Advisor/Chair:
Dr. Christopher A. Call
Abstract
A number of technical approaches had to be employed within the planner, namely, 1) translating expected reward into a probability of goal satisfaction criterion, 2) monitoring belief states with a Rao-Blackwellized particle, and 3) employing Rao-Blackwellized particles in the McLUG probabilistic conformant planning graph heuristic. POND-Hindsight is an action selection mechanism that evaluates each possible action by generating a number of lookahead samples (up to a xed horizon) that greedily select actions based on their heuristic value and samples the actions' observation; the average goal satisfaction probability of the end horizon belief states is used as the value of each action.
Recommended Citation
Hirsch, Merilynn Carol, "Process_Based Management of Downy Brome in Salt Desert Shrublands: Assessing Pre- and Post-Rehabilitation Soil and Vegetation Attributes" (2011). All Graduate Theses and Dissertations. Paper 1032.
http://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/1032
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This work was made publicly available electronically on September 29, 2011.