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Drone Proximity Detection Via Air Disturbance Analysis, Qian Zhao, Jason Hughes
Drone Proximity Detection Via Air Disturbance Analysis, Qian Zhao, Jason Hughes
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The use of unmanned aerial vehicles (drones) is expanding to commercial, scientific, and agriculture applications, including surveillance, product deliveries and aerial photography. One challenge for applications of drones is detecting obstacles and avoiding collisions. A typical solution to this issue is the use of camera sensors or ultrasonic sensors for obstacle detection or sometimes just manual control (teleoperation). However, these solutions have costs in battery lifetime, payload, operator skill. We note that there will be an air disturbance in the vicinity of the drone when it’s moving close to obstacles or other drones. Our objective is to detect obstacles from …
A Comparison Of Contextual Bandit Approaches To Human-In-The-Loop Robot Task Completion With Infrequent Feedback, Matt Mcneill, Damian Lyons
A Comparison Of Contextual Bandit Approaches To Human-In-The-Loop Robot Task Completion With Infrequent Feedback, Matt Mcneill, Damian Lyons
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Artificially intelligent assistive agents are playing an increased role in our work and homes. In contrast with currently predominant conversational agents, whose intelligence derives from dialogue trees and external modules, a fully autonomous domestic or workplace robot must carry out more complex reasoning. Such a robot must make good decisions as soon as possible, learn from experience, respond to feedback, and rely on feedback only as much as necessary. In this research, we narrow the focus of a hypothetical robot assistant to a room tidying task in a simulated domestic environment. Given an item, the robot chooses where to put …