In this paper, a hybrid approach for efficiently planning smooth local paths for mobile robot in an unknown environment is presented. The single robot is treated as a multi-agent system, and the corresponding architecture with cooperative control is constructed. And then a new method of information fusion namely DSmT (Dezert-Smarandache Theory) which is an extension of the DST (Dempster-Shafer ...

In the theory of dynamic programming (DP) the elimination of non-optimal actions is an important topic. For many DP problems the calculation is slow and action elimination helps to speed up the calculation. A great part of this thesis is dedicated to the development of action elimination procedures for various classes of DP problems. Common to all these action elimination procedures is that the...