What is meant by "partially observable", "observable", and "hidden"?

Question

in robotics, what do these mean?

Do these terms apply in layman real life? Any examples?

I saw these terms in my lecture notes, but I don't know what theymean

These terms are just not in any of the robotics book I flipped through!

Answer 1

It's pretty dense stuff for people who haven't been to robotics class (like me) but I found a page that makes it a bit clearer.

Check out this diagram. The website explains it all in more detail.

http://www.cassandra.org/pomdp/pomdp-faq...