Multi-sensor gripper positioning in unstructured urban environments using neural networks
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The future of robotics is not limited to factories and homes, and is extending to robot-assisted urban search and rescue. This paper proposes a new application of neural networks in this emerging field of research. Specifically, a neural network with feedforward architecture using the backpropagation learning algorithm is implemented in order to determine the positioning of a robotic gripper that is used in emergency rescue operations. Three training functions using the backpropagation learning algorithm are explored in order to improve the speed and the accuracy of the neural network. They are gradient descent, gradient descent with momentum and gradient descent with momentum and variable learning rate. The performance of each approach is evaluated through simulation. This work is part of an overall effort in developing a team of intelligent heterogeneous mobile rescue robots at the Industrial Automation Laboratory of the University of British Columbia. The goal is to have robots with various capabilities perform cooperative tasks that can provide assistance in extracting humans from life threatening situations. Such tasks may include using multiple robots to search for humans in distress, cooperatively grasping and manipulating objects to assist humans, and constructing simple devices with multiple robots in order to transport a human to safety.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".