arXiv (Cornell University)
Multi-Objective and Model-Predictive Tree Search for Spatiotemporal Informative Planning
June 2023 • Weizhe Chen, Lantao Liu
Adaptive sampling and planning in robotic environmental monitoring are challenging when the target environmental process varies over space and time. The underlying environmental dynamics require the planning module to integrate future environmental changes so that action decisions made earlier do not quickly become outdated. We propose a Monte Carlo tree search method which not only well balances the environment exploration and exploitation in space, but also catches up to the temporal environmental dynamics. This…