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Diver to Robot Communication Underwater

2025· article· en· W4413925747 on OpenAlexaff
Robert Codd-Downey, Michael Jenkin

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicUnderwater Vehicles and Communication Systems
Canadian institutionsYork University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsUnderwaterComputer scienceRobotUnderwater acoustic communicationRemotely operated underwater vehicleMarine engineeringMobile robotHuman–computer interactionArtificial intelligenceEngineeringGeologyOceanography

Abstract

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Gesture-based communication is a standard underwater communication strategy that is taught to divers as part of their regular diver training and it would seem a natural mechanism to leverage for diver to robot communication underwater. Enabling an unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) to understand such sequences would involve having the robot learn the large set of gestures that divers use and the way they are combined. As perfect transcription of gestures is unlikely, the communication process also requires an error-correcting framework to ensure that communication is clear and correct. Here we describe an interactive process that provides this infrastructure. A weakly supervised transfer learning approach is used to recognize standard SCUBA gestures in individual video frames and within a Sim2Real process to train a LSTM to recognize gesture sequences. This process is placed within a per-gesture and per-sequence interaction process to assist and confirm the recognition of individual gestures and to confirm entire gesture sequences. Individual aspects of this process and complete end-to-end operation are demonstrated using an unmanned underwater vehicle.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.027
Threshold uncertainty score0.091

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0010.003
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0270.009

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.

Opus teacher head0.010
GPT teacher head0.227
Teacher spread0.217 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designBench or experimental
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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