IROS 2017 Workshop
As humans, doubt and understanding our own limitations, failures and shortcomings is a key for improvement and development. Such knowledge alters our behaviors e.g. to execute tasks in a more cautious way. Equipping robots with a set of skills that allows them to assess the quality of their sensory data, internal models, used methods etc. is correspondingly believed to greatly improve the overall performance of an autonomous system.
The aim of this workshop is to discuss the following question:
With respect to humans, introspection is the process of examining one’s internal state. Robots do not have thoughts neither feelings, only data, hardware and algorithms.
Therefore, robots can only assess the quality of sensor data, internal models, representations, information, perception input etc. Such knowledge can later lead to a modification of robots behavior by including the assessed quality score in the planning process.
Introspection relates to safety, active perception, mapping and many topics. These topics have a direct impact on a variety of research areas, such as long term autonomy, search and rescue, and many others. Long term autonomy can benefit from autonomous failure recovery and active learning. For Search and Rescue, estimation of the confidence of the sensor input and used maps is essential for overall risk assessment. Moreover, for a large variety of tasks assessing the quality of sensor data, internal models, representation, information will directly affect mission success. The ability to reason and solve its own failures, and proactively enrich owned knowledge is a direct way to improve autonomous behaviours of a robot.
Carnegie Mellon University - Robotics Institute
Technische Universität Berlin - Robotics and Biology Laboratory
DLR - Robotics and Mechatronics Center
Jacobs University - Jacobs Robotics
TNO
Curtin University - Intelligent Robots Group
Introspective AI - Robot Learning At Its Best
Time | Event |
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9:20-9:25 | Welcome |
9:25-10:00 | Oliver Brock |
10:00-10:30 | Coffe break |
10:30-11:05 | Rudolph Triebel |
11:05 - 11:40 | Andreas Birk |
11:40 - 12:15 | Leon Kester |
12:15 - 13:15 | Lunch Break |
13:15 - 13:50 | Raymond Sheh |
13:50 - 14:25 | Ingmar Posner |
14:25 - 15:00 | Martial Hebert |
15:00 - 15:15 | Lightning talks |
15:15 - 16:00 | Poster Session |
16:00 - 16:30 | Coffee break |
16:30 - 17:30 | Panel discussion |
17:30 - 17:35 | Closing |
Orebro University - AASS
(CONTACT) tomasz.kucner@oru.se
SahanghaiTech University - STAR-Lab
soerensch@shanghaitech.edu.cn
Orebro University - AASS
martin.magnusson@oru.se
Orebro University - AASS
achim.lilienthal@oru.se