Multiple Abstraction Hierarchies for Mobile Robot Operation in Large Environments

This book focuses on the efficient performance of mobile robots through the use of multi-hierarchical symbolic representations of the environment.

A mobile robot intended to perform deliberative actions must possess some symbolic representation of its workspace, but such representations of real environments usually become so large that should be conveniently arranged in order to facilitate and, in some cases, make possible their use.

Apart from the drawback of dealing with large amounts ...