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Title: Active Object Perceiver: Recognition-Guided Policy Learning for Object Searching on Mobile Robots
Award ID(s):
1750082
NSF-PAR ID:
10094213
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Date Published:
Journal Name:
2018 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
Page Range / eLocation ID:
6857 to 6863
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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