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Andrew West

2 accepted papers

2020

Markov Decision Processes with Unknown State Feature Values for Safe Exploration using Gaussian Processes

IROS 2020poster

When exploring an unknown environment, a mobile robot must decide where to observe next. It must do this whilst minimising the risk of failure, by only exploring areas that it expects to be safe. In this context, safety refers to the robot remaining in regions where critical environment features (e.…

Cited by 28SourceScholar
2018

Pose Estimation for Mobile Robots to Maximise Data Quality of Fixed-Focus Laser Diagnostics in Hazardous Environments

IROS 2018poster

Characterisation of nuclear environments is critical for long term operation and decommissioning. Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) is an example of a scientific instrument that could be deployed to aid in characterisation of unknown environments. LIBS consists of a high intensity pulsed l…

Cited by 1SourceScholar