historical representation

Terms from Artificial Intelligence: humans at the heart of algorithms

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In robotics an historical representation keeps track of the history of observations and actions. Unlike a current state representation, it is able to re-assess past observations given new evidence, but it requires more memory and computation to periodically re-interpret the history.

Defined on pages 353, 353

Used on Chap. 15: pages 353, 355

Also known as historical representation