This paper presents a novel telepresence system for advancing aerial manipulation in dynamic and unstructured environments. The proposed system not only features a haptic device, but also a virtual reality (VR) interf...
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This paper presents a novel telepresence system for advancing aerial manipulation in dynamic and unstructured environments. The proposed system not only features a haptic device, but also a virtual reality (VR) interface that provides real-time 3D displays of the robot's workspace as well as a haptic guidance to its remotely located operator. To realize this, multiple sensors, namely, a LiDAR, cameras, and IMUs are utilized. For processing of the acquired sensory data, pose estimation pipelines are devised for industrial objects of both known and unknown geometries. We further propose an active learning pipeline in order to increase the sample efficiency of a pipeline component that relies on a Deep Neural Network (DNN) based object detector. All these algorithms jointly address various challenges encountered during the execution of perception tasks in industrial scenarios. In the experiments, exhaustive ablation studies are provided to validate the proposed pipelines. Methodologically, these results commonly suggest how an awareness of the algorithms' own failures and uncertainty (“introspection”) can be used to tackle the encountered problems. Moreover, outdoor experiments are conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of the overall system in enhancing aerial manipulation capabilities. In particular, with flight campaigns over days and nights, from spring to winter, and with different users and locations, we demonstrate over 70 robust executions of pick-and-place, force application and peg-in-hole tasks with the DLR cable-Suspended Aerial Manipulator (SAM). As a result, we show the viability of the proposed system in future industrial applications. 1
Increasing complexity of current and future systems poses a new challenge for software engineers. In a previous work we presented a light-weight runtime system for abstraction of heterogeneous parallel systems. This r...
With the advent of reconfigurable platforms and GPUs, we need means to successfully support the programmer and the system scheduler in efficiently exploiting the resources of the system. We present an approach of how ...
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Today's approaches towards heterogeneous computing rely on either the programmer or dedicated programming models to efficiently integrate heterogeneous components. In this work, we propose an adaptive cost-aware f...
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Today's approaches towards heterogeneous computing rely on either the programmer or dedicated programming models to efficiently integrate heterogeneous components. In this work, we propose an adaptive cost-aware function-migration mechanism built on top of a light-weight hardware abstraction layer. With this mechanism, the highly dynamic task of choosing the most beneficial processing unit will be hidden from the programmer while causing only minor variation in the work and program flow. The migration mechanism transparently adapts to the current workload and system environment without the necessity of JIT compilation or binary translation. Evaluation shows that our approach successfully adapts to new circumstances and predicts the most beneficial processing unit (PU). Through fine-grained PU selection, our solution achieves a speedup of up to 2.27 for the average kernel execution time but introduces only a marginal overhead in case its services are not required. Copyright 2011 ACM.
Multivariate time series with missing values are common in a wide range of applications,including energy *** imputation methods often fail to focus on the temporal dynamics and the cross-dimensional correlation *** th...
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Multivariate time series with missing values are common in a wide range of applications,including energy *** imputation methods often fail to focus on the temporal dynamics and the cross-dimensional correlation *** this paper we propose a two-step method based on an attention model to impute missing values in multivariate energy time ***,the underlying distribution of the missing values in the data is *** information is then further used to train an attention based imputation *** learning the distribution prior to the imputation process,the model can respond flexibly to the specific characteristics of the underlying *** developed model is applied to European energy data,obtained from the European Network of Transmission System Operators for *** different evaluation metrics and benchmarks,the conducted experiments show that the proposed model is preferable to the benchmarks and is able to accurately impute missing values.
This paper reflects on existing caching concepts in proxies and stubs of component technologies and lines out their advantages and deficiencies. A new concept is introduced that averts proliferation of component stubs...
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In Federated Learning (FL), devices that participate in the training usually have heterogeneous resources, i.e., energy availability. In current deployments of FL, devices that do not fulfill certain hardware requirem...
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For maintaining high performance and minimizing power consumption, adaptive, heterogeneous many-core architectures can be adapted at runtime to changing environmental requests or conditions as well as to changes resul...
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For maintaining high performance and minimizing power consumption, adaptive, heterogeneous many-core architectures can be adapted at runtime to changing environmental requests or conditions as well as to changes resulting from the dynamics of the workload itself. However, the huge complexity of such architectures makes their optimization very challenging at runtime. This challenge is therefore addressed within this paper by an Organic Computing approach for realizing a proactive, self-optimizing system behavior within adaptive, heterogeneous systems using a light-weight Learning Classifier System and a Run Length Encoding Markov predictor. The first realizes a self-optimizing behavior, freeing the user from the burden of optimizing the system manually, and the latter captures the system behavior, permits prediction of future system states, and therefore permits exploiting regular behavior for further improving the overall system performance. Using the use case of optimizing the overall system performance, results showed that the proactive, self-optimizing system achieved a performance improvement of 11.3% in comparison to a non-optimizing system.
Self-organizing principles can address the growing complexity and the huge challenge of management and efficient utilization of adaptive many-core architectures. Fundamental for realizing a self-organizing behavior wi...
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Self-organizing principles can address the growing complexity and the huge challenge of management and efficient utilization of adaptive many-core architectures. Fundamental for realizing a self-organizing behavior within such architectures is a dedicated monitoring infrastructure that provides the essential information about the system status and system behavior for realizing the basic property of self-awareness. This paper therefore proposes a flexible, hierarchical and scalable monitoring infrastructure for self-organizing, adaptive many-core architectures. The employed basic monitoring unit in the bottom monitoring layer performs data aggregation and filtering and reduces the amount of data that must be processed in higher monitoring layers. The middle layer performs first data analysis and is further responsible for hiding the heterogeneity of the underlying hardware configuration to the topmost monitoring layer. The latter is finally responsible for detecting changes in the system behavior and realizing self-awareness. The proposed monitoring infrastructure was evaluated entirely using a simulation framework. Results show that the infrastructure is able of detecting changes in the system behavior of an entire many-core system causing only a minor system disturbance. Further, the prototypical implementation of the basic monitoring unit proved that it can be realized very efficiently in hardware.
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