Search Results for author: David Flynn

Found 19 papers, 7 papers with code

Preference-Driven Active 3D Scene Representation for Robotic Inspection in Nuclear Decommissioning

no code implementations2 Apr 2025 Zhen Meng, Kan Chen, Xiangmin Xu, Erwin Jose Lopez Pulgarin, Emma Li, Philip G. Zhao, David Flynn

By unifying explicit 3D geometric modeling with implicit human-in-the-loop optimization, this work establishes a foundation for adaptive, safety-critical robotic perception systems, paving the way for enhanced automation in nuclear decommissioning, remote maintenance, and other high-risk environments.

Evaluating Scenario-based Decision-making for Interactive Autonomous Driving Using Rational Criteria: A Survey

no code implementations3 Jan 2025 Zhen Tian, ZhiHao Lin, Dezong Zhao, Wenjing Zhao, David Flynn, Shuja Ansari, Chongfeng Wei

However, ensuring safety and efficiency in interactive during within dynamic and diverse environments is still a primary barrier to large-scale AV adoption.

Autonomous Driving Decision Making +1

Trustworthy Text-to-Image Diffusion Models: A Timely and Focused Survey

1 code implementation26 Sep 2024 Yi Zhang, Zhen Chen, Chih-Hong Cheng, Wenjie Ruan, Xiaowei Huang, Dezong Zhao, David Flynn, Siddartha Khastgir, Xingyu Zhao

In this survey, we provide a timely and focused review of the literature on trustworthy T2I DMs, covering a concise-structured taxonomy from the perspectives of property, means, benchmarks and applications.

Fairness Image Generation

Modelling the Formation of Peer-to-Peer Trading Coalitions and Prosumer Participation Incentives in Transactive Energy Communities

no code implementations19 Nov 2023 Ying Zhang, Valentin Robu, Sho Cremers, Sonam Norbu, Benoit Couraud, Merlinda Andoni, David Flynn, H. Vincent Poor

Our experimental study shows that, for both market models, only a small number of P2P contracts, and only a fraction of total prosumers in the community are required to achieve the majority of the maximal potential Gains from Trade.

Diversity energy trading

Bayesian Learning for the Robust Verification of Autonomous Robots

1 code implementation15 Mar 2023 Xingyu Zhao, Simos Gerasimou, Radu Calinescu, Calum Imrie, Valentin Robu, David Flynn

Autonomous robots used in infrastructure inspection, space exploration and other critical missions operate in highly dynamic environments.

Data-driven modelling of energy demand response behaviour based on a large-scale residential trial

1 code implementation Energy and AI 2021 Ioannis Antonopoulos, Valentin Robuab, Benoit Couraud, David Flynn

Recent years have seen an increasing interest in Demand Response (DR), as a means to satisfy the growing flexibility needs of modern power grids.

Machine learning pipeline for battery state of health estimation

no code implementations1 Feb 2021 Darius Roman, Saurabh Saxena, Valentin Robu, Michael Pecht, David Flynn

In this paper, we design and evaluate a machine learning pipeline for estimation of battery capacity fade - a metric of battery health - on 179 cells cycled under various conditions.

BIG-bench Machine Learning feature selection

Symbiotic System of Systems Design for Safe and Resilient Autonomous Robotics in Offshore Wind Farms

no code implementations23 Jan 2021 Daniel Mitchell, Jamie Blanche, Osama Zaki, Joshua Roe, Leo Kong, Samuel Harper, Valentin Robu, Theodore Lim, David Flynn

To reduce Operation and Maintenance (O&M) costs on offshore wind farms, wherein 80% of the O&M cost relates to deploying personnel, the offshore wind sector looks to Robotics and Artificial Intelligence (RAI) for solutions.

Decision Making

BayLIME: Bayesian Local Interpretable Model-Agnostic Explanations

2 code implementations5 Dec 2020 Xingyu Zhao, Wei Huang, Xiaowei Huang, Valentin Robu, David Flynn

Given the pressing need for assuring algorithmic transparency, Explainable AI (XAI) has emerged as one of the key areas of AI research.

Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) model

VPR-Bench: An Open-Source Visual Place Recognition Evaluation Framework with Quantifiable Viewpoint and Appearance Change

1 code implementation17 May 2020 Mubariz Zaffar, Sourav Garg, Michael Milford, Julian Kooij, David Flynn, Klaus McDonald-Maier, Shoaib Ehsan

Visual Place Recognition (VPR) is the process of recognising a previously visited place using visual information, often under varying appearance conditions and viewpoint changes and with computational constraints.

Autonomous Navigation Image Retrieval +2

A Safety Framework for Critical Systems Utilising Deep Neural Networks

no code implementations7 Mar 2020 Xingyu Zhao, Alec Banks, James Sharp, Valentin Robu, David Flynn, Michael Fisher, Xiaowei Huang

Increasingly sophisticated mathematical modelling processes from Machine Learning are being used to analyse complex data.

Consider ethical and social challenges in smart grid research

no code implementations26 Nov 2019 Valentin Robu, David Flynn, Merlinda Andoni, Maizura Mokhtar

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning are increasingly seen as key technologies for building more decentralised and resilient energy grids, but researchers must consider the ethical and social implications of their use

BIG-bench Machine Learning

Predicting the Voltage Distribution for Low Voltage Networks using Deep Learning

1 code implementation19 Jun 2019 Maizura Mokhtar, Valentin Robu, David Flynn, Ciaran Higgins, Jim Whyte, Caroline Loughran, Fiona Fulton

Many of the proposed methods require full observability of the networks, motivating the installations of smart meters and advance metering infrastructure in many countries.

Management

Probabilistic Model Checking of Robots Deployed in Extreme Environments

no code implementations10 Dec 2018 Xingyu Zhao, Valentin Robu, David Flynn, Fateme Dinmohammadi, Michael Fisher, Matt Webster

Robots are increasingly used to carry out critical missions in extreme environments that are hazardous for humans.

Bayesian Inference

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