In this paper, we propose an indoor robot autonomous navigation system. The robot firstly explores in an unknown environment, and then navigates autonomously by using the explored map. The robot is equipped a 2D laser...
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Following trails in the wild is an essential capability of out-door autonomous mobile robots. Recently, deep learning-based approaches have made great advancements in this field. However, the existing research only fo...
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Following trails in the wild is an essential capability of out-door autonomous mobile robots. Recently, deep learning-based approaches have made great advancements in this field. However, the existing research only focuses on the trail following with a single robot. In contrast, many robotic tasks in the reality, such as search and patrolling, are conducted by a group of robots. While these robots are grouped to move in the wild, they can cooperate to significantly promote the trail following accuracy, for example, by sharing images of different view angles or real-time decision fusion. This paper proposes such an approach named DL-Cooper that enables multi-robot vision-based trail following based on deep learning algorithms. It allows each robot to make a decision respectively with deep neural network and then fusion the decisions on the collective level with the support of back-end cloud computing infrastructure. It also takes Quality of Service (QoS) assurance, a very essential property of robotic software, into consideration. By limiting the condition to fusion decisions, the time latency can be minimally sacrificed. Experiments on the real-world dataset show that our approach has significantly improved the accuracy of the single-robot system.
Convolution neural network models are widely used in image classification tasks. However, the running time of such models is so long that it is not the conforming to the strict real-time requirement of mobile devices....
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Convolution neural network models are widely used in image classification tasks. However, the running time of such models is so long that it is not the conforming to the strict real-time requirement of mobile devices. In order to optimize models and meet the requirement mentioned above, we propose a method that replaces the fully-connected layers of convolution neural network models with a tree classifier. Specifically, we construct a Visual Confusion Label Tree based on the output of the convolution neural network models, and use a multi-kernel SVM plus classifier with hierarchical constraints to train the tree classifier. Focusing on those confusion subsets instead of the entire set of categories makes the tree classifier more discriminative and the replacement of the fully-connected layers reduces the original running time. Experiments show that our tree classifier obtains a significant improvement over the state-of-the-art tree classifier by 4.3% and 2.4% in terms of top-1 accuracy on CIFAR-100 and ImageNet datasets respectively. Additionally, our method achieves 124× and 115× speedup ratio compared with fully-connected layers on AlexNet and VGG16 without accuracy decline.
In the past decade, multi-robot simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) has been widely studied. However, the problem of collaborative SLAM with a large number of robots, such as dozens of robots, is far from bei...
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In the past decade, multi-robot simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) has been widely studied. However, the problem of collaborative SLAM with a large number of robots, such as dozens of robots, is far from being well solved. The challenges stem from not only the computation complexity in large-scale map merging but also the inefficiency to enable the parallel computing in this process, which is indispensable for us to make avail of the frontier of computing technology such as powerful cloud infrastructure. To effectively address these challenges, especially the latter one, we propose a scalable and real-time multi-robot visual SLAM framework based on the cloud robotic paradigm. The prominent feature of our framework is that it can distribute the SLAM process to multiple computing hosts in a cluster, which enables map building in parallel. To eliminate the bottleneck from data sharing between different sub-tasks, we also introduce diversified messaging pattern for various messaging scenarios, as well as the consistency policies for map data. The evaluations on the prototype of our framework, have shown that our method can do support as many as 256 robot entities simultaneously, without any compromising on the precision of poses estimation and map building.
With the popularity of the open source, the open source community has accumulated a large number of open source project. While these massive projects provide developers with rich reusable resource, they also bring dif...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781538665664;9781538665657
With the popularity of the open source, the open source community has accumulated a large number of open source project. While these massive projects provide developers with rich reusable resource, they also bring difficulties for users to choose the appropriate software. Therefore, it is very meaningful to rank the software and tell users which is better. In this paper, we propose a novel approach that ranks software based on a global perspective different from traditional software evaluation and ranking methods. We evaluate the software from four dimensions, namely community popularity, development activity, software health and team health. Each dimension contains some metrics. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our method through comparative experiments. This method has been integrated into to the OSSEAN platform to form a software leaderboard.
Area coverage path planning is a special path planning method, which requires the robot to go through every point except obstacles in workspace. It has been used in many fields, such as lawn mowing, snow removal, sear...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781538674178
Area coverage path planning is a special path planning method, which requires the robot to go through every point except obstacles in workspace. It has been used in many fields, such as lawn mowing, snow removal, search and rescue task, pesticide spraying, demining robots, cleaning robots and so on. This paper presents the achievements of the last two decades on area coverage. We propose a new Classification based on method of Choset. We analyze and summarize the recently research results by the new classification method and list the advantages and disadvantages. Finally, we give a summary of the classification methods and propose future research directions.
In recent years, the rapid-growing scales of graphs have sparked a lot of parallel graph analysis frameworks to leverage the massive hardware resources on CPUs or GPUs. Existing CPU implementations are time-consuming,...
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In recent years, the rapid-growing scales of graphs have sparked a lot of parallel graph analysis frameworks to leverage the massive hardware resources on CPUs or GPUs. Existing CPU implementations are time-consuming, while GPU implementations are restricted by the memory space and the complexity of programming. In this paper, we present a high performance hybrid CPU-GPU parallel graph analytics framework with good productivity based on GraphMat. We map vertex programs to generalized sparse matrix vector multiplication on GPUs to deliver high performance, and propose a high-level abstraction for developers to implement various graph algorithms with relatively little efforts. Meanwhile, several optimizations have been adopted for reducing the communication cost and leveraging hardware resources, especially the memory hierarchy. We evaluate the proposed framework on three graph primitives(PageRank, BFS and SSSP) with large-scale graphs. The experimental results show that, our implementation achieves an average speedup of 7.0 X than GraphMat on two 6-core Intel Xeon CPUs. It also has the capability to process larger datasets but achieves comparable performance than MapGraph, a state-of-theart GPU-based framework.
Instance-specific algorithm selection technologies have been successfully used in many research fields,such as constraint satisfaction and planning. Researchers have been increasingly trying to model the potential rel...
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Instance-specific algorithm selection technologies have been successfully used in many research fields,such as constraint satisfaction and planning. Researchers have been increasingly trying to model the potential relations between different candidate algorithms for the algorithm selection. In this study, we propose an instancespecific algorithm selection method based on multi-output learning, which can manage these relations more *** kinds of multi-output learning methods are used to predict the performances of the candidate algorithms:(1)multi-output regressor stacking;(2) multi-output extremely randomized trees; and(3) hybrid single-output and multioutput trees. The experimental results obtained using 11 SAT datasets and 5 Max SAT datasets indicate that our proposed methods can obtain a better performance over the state-of-the-art algorithm selection methods.
B-mode ultrasound tongue imaging is widely used in the speech production field. However, efficient interpretation is in a great need for the tongue image sequences. Inspired by the recent success of unsupervised deep ...
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