Papers

7

Total Citations

199

H-Index

6

About

Scott Sanner is a leading researcher at the intersection of artificial intelligence, robotics, and decision-making under uncertainty. His work spans probabilistic reasoning, reinforcement learning, and autonomous systems, with a particular focus on enabling intelligent agents to operate effectively in complex, dynamic environments. Sanner made early contributions to mobile robotics with his work on object mapping in non-stationary environments (93 citations), introducing an expectation-maximization approach for detecting and adapting to environmental changes. He has since advanced the field of Bayesian optimisation for spatial-temporal monitoring (53 citations), developing sequential methods for costly-to-evaluate objective functions. A major theoretical contribution is his work on Symbolic Variable Elimination (SVE) for discrete and continuous graphical models (30 citations), providing a novel exact inference method for non-Gaussian distributions. Sanner has also explored risk-aware reinforcement learning through successor features and loss-calibrated Monte Carlo action selection, addressing critical challenges in sample efficiency and safe decision-making. His research continues to influence both theoretical foundations and practical applications in AI and robotics.

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H-Index
7
Papers
199
Total Citations
28
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🏆 Most Cited Paper
Towards object mapping in non-stationary environments with mobile robots
93 citations · 2003
📈 Most Prolific Year: 2021 (2 Papers)
🤝 Key Collaborators: 13
🏛 Institutions: Stanford University, Data61, Australian National University, University of Toronto

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