AIMA Artificial Intelligence a modern approch

AIMA-exercises is an open-source community of students, instructors and developers. Anyone can add an exercise, suggest answers to existing questions, or simply help us improve the platform. We accept contributions on this github repository.

Exercise 21.10 [10x10-exercise]

Compute the true utility function and the best linear approximation in $x$ and $y$ (as in Equation (4x3-linear-approx-equation)) for the following environments:

  1. A ${10}\times {10}$ world with a single $+1$ terminal state at (10,10).

  2. As in (a), but add a $-1$ terminal state at (10,1).

  3. As in (b), but add obstacles in 10 randomly selected squares.

  4. As in (b), but place a wall stretching from (5,2) to (5,9).

  5. As in (a), but with the terminal state at (5,5).

The actions are deterministic moves in the four directions. In each case, compare the results using three-dimensional plots. For each environment, propose additional features (besides $x$ and $y$) that would improve the approximation and show the results.

View Answer