A ROBUST ROBOT NAVIGATION ARCHITECTURE USINGPARTIALLY OBSERVABLE SEMI - MARKOV DECISION PROCESSESbyNIKFAR
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DEDICATION This thesis is dedicated to my parents, Afsur and Farkhondeh, for teaching me to go wherever dreaming goes. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS First of all, I would like to thank my advisor Dr. Mahadevan for fueling my interest in robotics, and for the ideas, suggestions, enthusiasm, and encouragement that he provided, when there seemed to be no light at the end of the tunnel. Not only do I appreciate both Dr. Hall for getting me started oo in the program, and Dr. Goldgof for teaching a really enjoyable Digital Image Processing course, but I would also like to thank them for being on my committee. I would like to thank Billy Raulerson for coding the graphical interface. Finally, I would like to thank my family and friends (you know who you are) for their love and support, without which this would not have been possible.
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