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The algorithm utilizes the fuzzy reasoning adaptive ability and extensive functional approximation features of IT2FNN to solve this problem, mapped from state space to action space, of the Q-learning algorithm in unknown environments. Compared with the BP fitting Q-learning algorithm (BP-Q), IT2FNN-Q endows the robot with better adaptive and real-time decision-making abilities and solves the slow convergence and nonconvergence problems, through its local approximation. By comparison with the fuzzy neural network fitting Q-learning algorithm (FNN-Q), this proposed algorithm has more advantages for dealing with the external uncertainty, enabling the robot to complete a better path with less fuzzy rules. 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