Title : 
Probabilistic mobile robot with quantum decision-making
         
        
            Author : 
Kagan, Eugene ; Salmona, Emanuel ; Ben-Gal, Irad
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Dept. of Ind. Eng., Tel-Aviv Univ., Tel-Aviv, Israel
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
This work addresses informational-based methods for decision-making in Hilbert space, widely known as quantum decision-making, and their application to the control of mobile robot. We consider a mobile robot, whose objective is to find objects in a changing environment. We compare the robot performance under both a classical and a quantum decision making (control) approaches. Both approaches are driven by similar information-theory decision criteria. The robot behavior is physically studied by using an NXT Lego Robot at the CIM lab in Tel Aviv University.
         
        
            Keywords : 
Hilbert spaces; decision making; feedback; mobile robots; Hilbert space; informational-based methods; probabilistic mobile robot; quantum decision-making; robot behavior; Automatic control; Decision making; Entropy; Mobile robots; Quantum computing; Quantum mechanics; Robot control; Robot sensing systems; Robotics and automation; Stochastic systems; Quantum-controlled mobile robot; decision-making; information; relative entropy;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Electrical and Electronics Engineers in Israel, 2008. IEEEI 2008. IEEE 25th Convention of
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Eilat
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-1-4244-2481-8
         
        
            Electronic_ISBN : 
978-1-4244-2482-5
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/EEEI.2008.4736561