1 code implementation • 3 Oct 2024 • Luca Castri, Sariah Mghames, Marc Hanheide, Nicola Bellotto
The study of cause-and-effect is of the utmost importance in many branches of science, but also for many practical applications of intelligent systems.
no code implementations • 24 Jun 2024 • Sariah Mghames, Luca Castri, Marc Hanheide, Nicola Bellotto
Autonomous mobile robots can rely on several human motion detection and prediction systems for safe and efficient navigation in human environments, but the underline model architectures can have different impacts on the trustworthiness of the robot in the real world.
no code implementations • 7 Jun 2024 • Luca Castri, Gloria Beraldo, Sariah Mghames, Marc Hanheide, Nicola Bellotto
To bridge this gap, in our previous work we proposed ROS-Causal, a ROS-based framework designed for onboard data collection and causal discovery in human-robot spatial interactions.
1 code implementation • 26 Apr 2024 • Hariharan Arunachalam, Marc Hanheide, Sariah Mghames
Automating the segregation process is a need for every sector experiencing a high volume of materials handling, repetitive and exhaustive operations, in addition to risky exposures.
1 code implementation • 25 Feb 2024 • Luca Castri, Gloria Beraldo, Sariah Mghames, Marc Hanheide, Nicola Bellotto
Deploying robots in human-shared spaces requires understanding interactions among nearby agents and objects.
no code implementations • 30 Jun 2023 • Sariah Mghames, Luca Castri, Marc Hanheide, Nicola Bellotto
The third approach implements a purely data-driven network for motion prediction, the output of which is post-processed to predict QTC spatial interactions.
1 code implementation • 23 Apr 2023 • Sariah Mghames, Luca Castri, Marc Hanheide, Nicola Bellotto
Reasoning on the context of human beings is crucial for many real-world applications especially for those deploying autonomous systems (e. g. robots).
no code implementations • 9 Jan 2023 • Ibrahim Hroob, Sergi Molina, Riccardo Polvara, Grzegorz Cielniak, Marc Hanheide
In this research, we present an end-to-end data-driven pipeline for determining the long-term stability status of objects within a given environment, specifically distinguishing between static and dynamic objects.
no code implementations • 25 Nov 2022 • Riccardo Polvara, Sergi Molina Mellado, Ibrahim Hroob, Grzegorz Cielniak, Marc Hanheide
Long-term autonomy is one of the most demanded capabilities looked into a robot.
no code implementations • 15 Nov 2022 • George Onoufriou, Marc Hanheide, Georgios Leontidis
Yield forecasting is a critical first step necessary for yield optimisation, with important consequences for the broader food supply chain, procurement, price-negotiation, logistics, and supply.
no code implementations • 29 Oct 2022 • Luca Castri, Sariah Mghames, Marc Hanheide, Nicola Bellotto
Exploiting robots for activities in human-shared environments, whether warehouses, shopping centres or hospitals, calls for such robots to understand the underlying physical interactions between nearby agents and objects.
no code implementations • 28 Oct 2022 • Sariah Mghames, Marc Hanheide
The majority of motion planning strategies developed over the literature for reaching an object in clutter are applied to two dimensional (2-d) space where the state space of the environment is constrained in one direction.
no code implementations • 20 Mar 2022 • Francesco Del Duchetto, Marc Hanheide
The robot behaviour planning is embedded in a Reinforcement Learning (RL) framework, where the objective is maximising the level of overall user engagement during the interactions.
no code implementations • 26 Oct 2021 • George Onoufriou, Marc Hanheide, Georgios Leontidis
We present automatically parameterised Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) for encrypted neural network inference and exemplify our inference over FHE compatible neural networks with our own open-source framework and reproducible examples.
2 code implementations • 20 Oct 2020 • Vaisakh Shaj, Philipp Becker, Dieter Buchler, Harit Pandya, Niels van Duijkeren, C. James Taylor, Marc Hanheide, Gerhard Neumann
We adopt a recent probabilistic recurrent neural network architecture, called Re-current Kalman Networks (RKNs), to model learning by conditioning its transition dynamics on the control actions.
no code implementations • 27 Apr 2020 • Sariah Mghames, Marc Hanheide, Amir Ghalamzan E
Nonetheless, existing approaches to planning pushing movements in cluttered environments either are computationally expensive or only deal with 2-D cases and are not suitable for fruit picking, where it needs to compute 3-D pushing movements in a short time.
1 code implementation • 10 Jan 2020 • Francesco Del Duchetto, Paul Baxter, Marc Hanheide
Continuously measuring the engagement of users with a robot in a Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) setting paves the way towards in-situ reinforcement learning, improve metrics of interaction quality, and can guide interaction design and behaviour optimisation.
Robotics
no code implementations • 13 Jul 2018 • Lars Kunze, Nick Hawes, Tom Duckett, Marc Hanheide, Tomáš Krajník
Autonomous systems will play an essential role in many applications across diverse domains including space, marine, air, field, road, and service robotics.
no code implementations • 30 Sep 2017 • Li Sun, Zhi Yan, Sergi Molina Mellado, Marc Hanheide, Tom Duckett
Our approach, T-Pose-LSTM (Temporal 3DOF-Pose Long-Short-Term Memory), is trained using long-term data from real-world robot deployments and aims to learn context-dependent (environment- and time-specific) human activities.