The paper proposes a new approach to fuzzy abduction by extending the contraposition rule of propositional logic. The main difficulty of fuzzy abduction is due to the restriction of single antecedent clause in a fuzzy...
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The paper proposes a new approach to fuzzy abduction by extending the contraposition rule of propositional logic. The main difficulty of fuzzy abduction is due to the restriction of single antecedent clause in a fuzzy production rule. When more than one antecedent clause occurs jointly in a fuzzy rule, the membership value of the derived antecedent clauses become equal, which should not be the case in general. The paper overcomes this problem and demonstrates a simple but elegant method to compute premises in a multi-chained reasoning system.
On account of having real-time behavior and being easy to implement, spring meshes have been used for modeling deformable objects. Determining spring stiffness parameters for simulation of soft objects with high accur...
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Recent advances in XCS technology have shown that selfadaptive mutation can be highly useful to speed-up the evolutionary progress in XCS. Moreover, recent publications have shown that XCS can also be successfully app...
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(纸本)9781605581309
Recent advances in XCS technology have shown that selfadaptive mutation can be highly useful to speed-up the evolutionary progress in XCS. Moreover, recent publications have shown that XCS can also be successfully applied to challenging real-valued domains including datamining, function approximation, and clustering. In this paper, we combine these two advances and investigate self-adaptive mutation in the XCS system for function approximation with hyperellipsoidal condition structures, referred to as XCSF in this paper. It has been shown that XCSF solves function approximation problems with an accuracy, noise robustness, and generalization capability comparable to other statistical machine learning techniques and that XCSF outperforms simple clustering techniques to which linear approximations are added. This paper shows that the right type of selfadaptive mutation can further improve XCSF's performance solving problems more parameter independent and more reliably. We analyze various types of self-adaptive mutation and show that XCSF with self-adaptive mutation ranges, differentiated for the separate classifier condition values, yields most robust performance results. Future work may further investigate the properties of the self-adaptive values and may integrate advanced self-adaptation techniques. Copyright 2008 ACM.
This paper presents a vision-based approach for mobile robot localization. The environmental model is topological. The new approach uses a constellation of different types of affine covariant regions to characterize a...
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This paper presents a vision-based approach for mobile robot localization. The environmental model is topological. The new approach uses a constellation of different types of affine covariant regions to characterize a place. This type of representation permits a reliable and distinctive environment modeling. The performance of the proposed approach is evaluated using a database of panoramic images from different rooms. Additionally, we compare different combinations of complementary feature region detectors to find the one that achieves the best results. Our experimental results show promising results for this new localization method. Additionally, similarly to what happens with single detectors, different combinations exhibit different strengths and weaknesses depending on the situation, suggesting that a context-aware method to combine the different detectors would improve the localization results.
Natural human-like human-robot interaction (NHL-HRI) requires the robot to be skilled both at recognizing and producing many subtle human behaviors, often taken for granted by humans. We suggest a rough division of th...
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DIARC, a distributed integrated affect, reflection, cognition architecture for robots, provides many features that are critical to successful natural human-robot interaction. As such, DIARC is an ideal platform for ex...
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Complex robots that interact naturally with humans require the integration, coordination and maintenance of many diverse software components and algorithms. An architecture that incorporates explicit knowledge about t...
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Complex robots that interact naturally with humans require the integration, coordination and maintenance of many diverse software components and algorithms. An architecture that incorporates explicit knowledge about the relationships among these components and the overall system state can be used for introspection and consequently to reason about the best configurations of the computing environment under changing conditions; potential uses include maintaining the system's integrity, promoting its health, and providing the ability to dynamically reconfigure system components (e.g., after component failure). In this paper, we describe a rudimentary reasoning system, part of our distributed integrated affect reflection cognition (DIARC) architecture for human-robot interaction, that can autonomously perform failure detection, failure recovery, and system reconfiguration of distributed architectural components to ensure sustained operation and interactions. We demonstrate the functionality and utility of the proposed mechanisms on a robot, where architectural components are forcefully removed by hand and automatically recovered by the system while the robot is continuing its interactions with humans as part of a joint human-robot task.
In the recent past, several different methods for coordinating behavior in multi-robot teams have been proposed. Common to most of them is the use of communication to coordinate behavior. For many practical applicatio...
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(纸本)1595933034
In the recent past, several different methods for coordinating behavior in multi-robot teams have been proposed. Common to most of them is the use of communication to coordinate behavior. For many practical applications, however, communication might not be an option (e.g., because of energy constraints of embedded platforms, limited communication range of wireless transmitters, security risks of potential interception of messages in hostile territory, etc.). In this paper we examine low-complexity, low-cost strategies without communication for coordinated agent behavior. Specifically, we investigate the utility of a "social preference mechanism" and a "pairing mechanism" in territory exploration tasks, where agents have to explore their environment to find and visit k checkpoints, which only count as "visited" when n agents are present at them at the same time. Experimental results indicate that pairing is the better strategy, raising interesting questions about tradeoffs between agent complexity and group size (e.g., whether fewer, more expensive agents with the ability to visit checkpoints individually are a better choice than more less expensive agents). Copyright 2006 ACM.
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