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# Recycling Robot Example
> Applying Bellman optimality to a recycling robot MDP.
## Problem statement
*Finite State Machine of a a recycling robot and MDP dynamics LUT*
## Solution
**Key references**: (Bency et al., 2019; Schmidhuber, 2015; Marco et al., 2017; Hamrick et al., 2017)
## References
* Bency, M., Qureshi, A., Yip, M. (2019). *Neural Path Planning: Fixed Time, Near-Optimal Path Generation via Oracle Imitation*.
* Hamrick, J., Ballard, A., Pascanu, R., Vinyals, O., Heess, N., et al. (2017). *Metacontrol for Adaptive Imagination-Based Optimization*.
* Marco, A., Berkenkamp, F., Hennig, P., Schoellig, A., Krause, A., et al. (2017). *Virtual vs. Real: Trading Off Simulations and Physical Experiments in Reinforcement Learning with Bayesian Optimization*.
* Schmidhuber, J. (2015). *On Learning to Think: Algorithmic Information Theory for Novel Combinations of Reinforcement Learning Controllers and Recurrent Neural World Models*.
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