Related papers: Automating lookahead planning using site appearanc…
Automated planning is one of the foundational areas of AI. Since no single planner can work well for all tasks and domains, portfolio-based techniques have become increasingly popular in recent years. In particular, deep learning emerges as…
Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) has been successfully applied in many sequence learning problems. Such as handwriting recognition, image description, natural language processing and video motion analysis. After years of development,…
The ability to know in advance the trend of running process instances, with respect to different features, such as the expected completion time, would allow business managers to timely counteract to undesired situations, in order to prevent…
Path planning in a changing environment is a challenging task in robotics, as moving objects impose time-dependent constraints. Recent planning methods primarily focus on the spatial aspects, lacking the capability to directly incorporate…
Road construction projects maintain transportation infrastructures. These projects range from the short-term (e.g., resurfacing or fixing potholes) to the long-term (e.g., adding a shoulder or building a bridge). Deciding what the next…
We tackle the long-term prediction of scene evolution in a complex downtown scenario for automated driving based on Lidar grid fusion and recurrent neural networks (RNNs). A bird's eye view of the scene, including occupancy and velocity, is…
Structural engineering knowledge can be of significant importance to the architectural design team during the early design phase. However, architects and engineers do not typically work together during the conceptual phase; in fact,…
Regression is a fundamental prediction task common in data-centric engineering applications that involves learning mappings between continuous variables. In many engineering applications (e.g.\ structural health monitoring), feature-label…
Repeated plant monitoring is essential for tracking crop growth, and 3D reconstruction enables consistent comparison across monitoring sessions. However, rebuilding a 3D model from scratch in every session is costly and overlooks…
Automating complex tasks using robotic systems requires skills for planning, control and execution. This paper proposes a complete robotic system for maintenance automation, which can automate disassembly and assembly operations under…
One of the major challenges for autonomous vehicles in urban environments is to understand and predict other road users' actions, in particular, pedestrians at the point of crossing. The common approach to solving this problem is to use the…
The problem of autonomous indoor mapping is addressed. The goal is to minimize the time to achieve a predefined percentage of exposure with some desired level of certainty. The use of a pre-trained generative deep neural network, acting as…
We consider scenarios where a ground vehicle plans its path using data gathered by an aerial vehicle. In the aerial images, navigable areas of the scene may be occluded due to obstacles. Naively planning paths using aerial images may result…
Accelerator-based heterogeneous architectures, such as CPU-GPU, CPU-TPU, and CPU-FPGA systems, are widely adopted to support the popular artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms that demand intensive computation. When deployed in real-time…
Neural architecture search enables automation of architecture design. Despite its success, it is computationally costly and does not provide an insight on how to design a desirable architecture. Here we propose a new way of searching neural…
Generation of computer-aided design (CAD) models from multi-view images may be useful in many practical applications. To date, this problem is usually solved with an intermediate point-cloud reconstruction and involves manual work to create…
AGVs are driverless robotic vehicles that picks up and delivers materials. How to improve the efficiency while preventing deadlocks is the core issue in designing AGV systems. In this paper, we propose an approach to tackle this problem.The…
Gated recurrent units (GRUs) are specialized memory elements for building recurrent neural networks. Despite their incredible success on various tasks, including extracting dynamics underlying neural data, little is understood about the…
We propose a novel planning technique for satisfying tasks specified in temporal logic in partially revealed environments. We define high-level actions derived from the environment and the given task itself, and estimate how each action…
Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has attracted growing interest. To reduce the search cost, recent work has explored weight sharing across models and made major progress in One-Shot NAS. However, it has been observed that a model with…