Unsupervised Robotic Sorting : Towards Autonomous Decision Making Robots

Intelligent decision-making system for autonomous robots

and reaction memories have been isolated within LTM. The abstract memory contains all known discoveries categorized and systematized in groups of more generalized discoveries (for example, chair, sofa, coach, stool, seat, and pouf, can be generalized as seat-places). The reaction memory, on the other hand, contains all po678 Z. Kowalczuk and M. Czubenko H-STM current objects (with subconscious ...

Self-organized collective decision-making in swarms of autonomous robots

In my Ph.D. thesis, I focus on the design and mathematical modeling of collective decision-making mechanisms for swarm of autonomous robots. In particular, most of the attention of my studies concerns collective decision-making problems that are characterized by a discrete and finite number of possible alternatives (e.g., the best-of-n decision problem discussed in Section 2). The aim of my stu...

Overvaluing autonomous decision-making.

Current capacity-based legislation and practice overvalues autonomy to the detriment of other ethical principles. A balanced ethical approach would consider the patient's right to treatment, their relationships and interactions with society and not solely the patient's right to liberty and autonomous decision-making.

Towards Autonomous Robotic Valve Turning

In this paper an autonomous intervention robotic task to learn the skill of grasping and turning a valve is described. To resolve this challenge a set of different techniques are proposed, each one realizing a specific task and sending information to the others in a Hardware-In-Loop (HIL) simulation. To improve the estimation of the valve position, an Extended Kalman Filter is designed. Also to...

TAROS 2007: Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems.