update_belief: Belief Update

In pomdp: Infrastructure for Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes (POMDP)

Belief Update

Description

Update the belief given a taken action and observation.

Usage

update_belief(
  model,
  belief = NULL,
  action = NULL,
  observation = NULL,
  episode = 1,
  digits = 7,
  drop = TRUE
)

Arguments

model	a POMDP object.
belief	the current belief state. Defaults to the start belief state specified in the model or "uniform".
action	the taken action. Can also be a vector of multiple actions or, if missing, then all actions are evaluated.
observation	the received observation. Can also be a vector of multiple observations or, if missing, then all observations are evaluated.
episode	Use transition and observation matrices for the given episode for time-dependent POMDPs (see POMDP).
digits	round decimals.
drop	logical; drop the result to a vector if only a single belief state is returned.

Details

Update the belief state b (belief) with an action a and observation o using the update b' \leftarrow \tau(b, a, o) defined so that

b'(s') = \eta O(o | s',a) \sum_{s \in S} T(s' | s,a) b(s)

where \eta = 1/ \sum_{s' \in S}[ O(o | s',a) \sum_{s \in S} T(s' | s,a) b(s)] normalizes the new belief state so the probabilities add up to one.

Value

returns the updated belief state as a named vector. If action or observations is a vector with multiple elements ot missing, then a matrix with all resulting belief states is returned.

Author(s)

Michael Hahsler

See Also

Other POMDP: MDP2POMDP, POMDP(), accessors, actions(), add_policy(), plot_belief_space(), projection(), reachable_and_absorbing, regret(), sample_belief_space(), simulate_POMDP(), solve_POMDP(), solve_SARSOP(), transition_graph(), value_function(), write_POMDP()

Examples

data(Tiger)

update_belief(c(.5,.5), model = Tiger)
update_belief(c(.5,.5), action = "listen", observation = "tiger-left", model = Tiger)
update_belief(c(.15,.85), action = "listen", observation = "tiger-right", model = Tiger)

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