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- ZeitschriftenartikelAn Introduction to Hyperdimensional Computing for Robotics(KI - Künstliche Intelligenz: Vol. 33, No. 4, 2019) Neubert, Peer; Schubert, Stefan; Protzel, PeterHyperdimensional computing combines very high-dimensional vector spaces (e.g. 10,000 dimensional) with a set of carefully designed operators to perform symbolic computations with large numerical vectors. The goal is to exploit their representational power and noise robustness for a broad range of computational tasks. Although there are surprising and impressive results in the literature, the application to practical problems in the area of robotics is so far very limited. In this work, we aim at providing an easy to access introduction to the underlying mathematical concepts and describe the existing computational implementations in form of vector symbolic architectures (VSAs). This is accompanied by references to existing applications of VSAs in the literature. To bridge the gap to practical applications, we describe and experimentally demonstrate the application of VSAs to three different robotic tasks: viewpoint invariant object recognition, place recognition and learning of simple reactive behaviors. The paper closes with a discussion of current limitations and open questions.
- ZeitschriftenartikelNews(KI - Künstliche Intelligenz: Vol. 33, No. 4, 2019)
- ZeitschriftenartikelSpecial Issue on Reintegrating Artificial Intelligence and Robotics(KI - Künstliche Intelligenz: Vol. 33, No. 4, 2019) Pecora, Federico; Mansouri, Masoumeh; Hawes, Nick; Kunze, Lars
- ZeitschriftenartikelBenchmarking Functionalities of Domestic Service Robots Through Scientific Competitions(KI - Künstliche Intelligenz: Vol. 33, No. 4, 2019) Basiri, Meysam; Piazza, Enrico; Matteucci, Matteo; Lima, PedroBenchmarking via carefully designed competitions makes it possible to provide a common framework for the rigorous comparison of intelligent and autonomous systems; competitions may play the role of scientific experiments while being appealing both to researchers and to the general public thus promoting critical analysis of systems outside the labs. This paper describes our approach to benchmarking domestic service robots through organizing recurrent competitions under the European Robotics League. It details the tools and benchmarks designed to evaluate the performance of robots at task and functionality levels. In particular, the functionality benchmarks for object perception and navigation are described and an overview of the new benchmarks to appear in the league is presented.
- ZeitschriftenartikelCategorisations: AI(KI - Künstliche Intelligenz: Vol. 33, No. 4, 2019) Timpf, Sabine
- ZeitschriftenartikelEfficient Supervision for Robot Learning Via Imitation, Simulation, and Adaptation(KI - Künstliche Intelligenz: Vol. 33, No. 4, 2019) Wulfmeier, MarkusRecent successes in machine learning have led to a shift in the design of autonomous systems, improving performance on existing tasks and rendering new applications possible. Data-focused approaches gain relevance across diverse, intricate applications when developing data collection and curation pipelines becomes more effective than manual behaviour design. The following work aims at increasing the efficiency of this pipeline in two principal ways: by utilising more powerful sources of informative data and by extracting additional information from existing data. In particular, we target three orthogonal fronts: imitation learning, domain adaptation, and transfer from simulation.
- ZeitschriftenartikelDeskilling Robots in Logistics Environments(KI - Künstliche Intelligenz: Vol. 33, No. 4, 2019) Davies, Martin RaymondRobots are installed in logistics environments because they are adaptive; unlike their rigid mechanized counterparts, e.g. conveyors and lifts. Maintaining this adaptability post installation; and leaving it to the customer to reconfigure and maintain the system is still a difficult proposal. Deskilling the introduction and sustainability of robotic systems therefore is a key success factor for replacing traditional static capital equipment.
- ZeitschriftenartikelA Philosophically Motivated View on AI and Robotics(KI - Künstliche Intelligenz: Vol. 33, No. 4, 2019) Kunze, Lars; Sloman, Aaron
- ZeitschriftenartikelOn the Applicability of Probabilistic Programming Languages for Causal Activity Recognition(KI - Künstliche Intelligenz: Vol. 33, No. 4, 2019) Lüdtke, Stefan; Popko, Maximilian; Kirste, ThomasRecognizing causal activities of human protagonists, and jointly inferring context information like location of objects and agents from noisy sensor data is a challenging task. Causal models can be used, which describe the activity structure symbolically, e.g. by precondition-effect actions. Recently, probabilistic programming languages (PPLs) arose as an abstraction mechanism that allow to concisely define probabilistic models by a general-purpose programming language, and provide off-the-shelf, general-purpose inference algorithms. In this paper, we empirically investigate whether PPLs provide a feasible alternative for implementing causal models for human activity recognition, by comparing the performance of three different PPLs (Anglican, WebPPL and Figaro) on a multi-agent scenario. We find that PPLs allow to concisely express causal models, but general-purpose inference algorithms that are typically implemented in PPLs are outperformed by an application-specific inference algorithm by orders of magnitude. Still, PPLs can be a valuable tool for developing probabilistic models, due to their expressiveness and simple applicability.
- ZeitschriftenartikelShakey Ever After? Questioning Tacit Assumptions in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence(KI - Künstliche Intelligenz: Vol. 33, No. 4, 2019) Kirsch, AlexandraShakey the robot was a milestone of autonomous robots and artificial intelligence. Its design principles have dominated research until now. Tacit philosophical and architectural assumptions have impoverished the space of research topics and methods. I point out ways to overcome this impasse with sideglances to other scientific fields.