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Online solvers for partially observable Markov decision processes have been applied to problems with large discrete state spaces, but continuous state, action, and observation spaces remain a challenge. This paper begins by investigating…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-09-07 Zachary Sunberg , Mykel Kochenderfer

Partially observable Markov decision processes (POMDPs) with continuous state and observation spaces have powerful flexibility for representing real-world decision and control problems but are notoriously difficult to solve. Recent online…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Michael H. Lim , Claire J. Tomlin , Zachary N. Sunberg

Solving Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes (POMDPs) with continuous actions is challenging, particularly for high-dimensional action spaces. To alleviate this difficulty, we propose a new sampling-based online POMDP solver,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-09-14 Marcus Hoerger , Hanna Kurniawati , Dirk Kroese , Nan Ye

Solving continuous Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes (POMDPs) is challenging, particularly for high-dimensional continuous action spaces. To alleviate this difficulty, we propose a new sampling-based online POMDP solver, called…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Marcus Hoerger , Hanna Kurniawati , Dirk Kroese , Nan Ye

Planning under partial observability is an essential capability of autonomous robots. The Partially Observable Markov Decision Process (POMDP) provides a powerful framework for planning under partial observability problems, capturing the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Marcus Hoerger , Muhammad Sudrajat , Hanna Kurniawati

Online solvers for partially observable Markov decision processes have difficulty scaling to problems with large action spaces. This paper proposes a method called PA-POMCPOW to sample a subset of the action space that provides varying…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-04 John Mern , Anil Yildiz , Larry Bush , Tapan Mukerji , Mykel J. Kochenderfer

Online planning under uncertainty in partially observable domains is an essential capability in robotics and AI. The partially observable Markov decision process (POMDP) is a mathematically principled framework for addressing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Da Kong , Vadim Indelman

The Partially Observable Markov Decision Process (POMDP) is a powerful framework for capturing decision-making problems that involve state and transition uncertainty. However, most current POMDP planners cannot effectively handle…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Sampada Deglurkar , Michael H. Lim , Johnathan Tucker , Zachary N. Sunberg , Aleksandra Faust , Claire J. Tomlin

Online solvers for partially observable Markov decision processes have difficulty scaling to problems with large action spaces. Monte Carlo tree search with progressive widening attempts to improve scaling by sampling from the action space…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-11-04 John Mern , Anil Yildiz , Zachary Sunberg , Tapan Mukerji , Mykel J. Kochenderfer

Rather than augmenting rewards with penalties for undesired behavior, Constrained Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes (CPOMDPs) plan safely by imposing inviolable hard constraint value budgets. Previous work performing online…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-12-26 Arec Jamgochian , Anthony Corso , Mykel J. Kochenderfer

This paper presents a finite-time analysis for Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) in Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes (POMDPs), with probabilistic concentration bounds in both discrete and continuous observation spaces. While…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Da Kong , Vadim Indelman

Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes (POMDPs) provide a rich framework for sequential decision-making under uncertainty in stochastic domains. However, solving a POMDP is often intractable except for small problems due to their…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-01-16 Stéphane Ross , Joelle Pineau , Sébastien Paquet , Brahim Chaib-draa

Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes (POMDPs) provide a robust framework for decision-making under uncertainty in applications such as autonomous driving and robotic exploration. Their extension, $\rho$POMDPs, introduces…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Ron Benchetrit , Idan Lev-Yehudi , Andrey Zhitnikov , Vadim Indelman

Motion planning is challenging when it comes to the case of imperfect state information. Decision should be made based on belief state which evolves according to the noise from the system dynamics and sensor measurement. In this paper, we…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-10-02 Ke Sun , Vijay Kumar

Most exact algorithms for general partially observable Markov decision processes (POMDPs) use a form of dynamic programming in which a piecewise-linear and convex representation of one value function is transformed into another. We examine…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-02-08 Anthony R. Cassandra , Michael L. Littman , Nevin Lianwen Zhang

Planning under partial obervability is essential for autonomous robots. A principled way to address such planning problems is the Partially Observable Markov Decision Process (POMDP). Although solving POMDPs is computationally intractable,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-11-05 Marcus Hoerger , Hanna Kurniawati

Planning under partial obervability is essential for autonomous robots. A principled way to address such planning problems is the Partially Observable Markov Decision Process (POMDP). Although solving POMDPs is computationally intractable,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-07-24 Marcus Hoerger , Hanna Kurniawati , Alberto Elfes

The Partially Observable Markov Decision Process (POMDP) provides a principled framework for decision making in stochastic partially observable environments. However, computing good solutions for problems with continuous action spaces…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Marcus Hoerger , Hanna Kurniawati , Dirk Kroese , Nan Ye

Partially observable Markov decision processes (POMDPs) offer a principled formalism for planning under state and transition uncertainty. Despite advances made towards solving large POMDPs, obtaining performant policies under limited…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Zakariya Laouar , Qi Heng Ho , Zachary Sunberg

Currently, large partially observable Markov decision processes (POMDPs) are often solved by sampling-based online methods which interleave planning and execution phases. However, a pre-computed offline policy is more desirable in POMDP…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Yang You , Vincent Thomas , Alex Schutz , Robert Skilton , Nick Hawes , Olivier Buffet
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