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Oliver Brock Robotics and Biology Laboratory
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Some Very, Very Basic and/or Old Thoughts on Multimodality and Uncertainty Oliver Brock Robotics and Biology Laboratory The Amazon Picking Challenge The Problem Possible Reasons for Winning Luck Bigger team Graduate students
Some Very, Very Basic and/or Old Thoughts
Oliver Brock Robotics and Biology Laboratory
The Amazon Picking Challenge
The Problem
Possible Reasons for Winning…
► Luck ► Bigger team ► Graduate students versus undergraduates ► Cheating ► Embodiment ► Vertical integration (behavior) ► Better boxes: Factorization ► Embodiment ► Biases / priors / heuristics ► Project management ► Really smart people
Embodiment Choices
Boxes
Prior Knowledge for Segmentation
Hue + white/gray/black
Projecting to 1D Color (Hue + B/W)
Bayes' rule Backprojection
P(Color | Object)
Probabilistic Segmentation
Combine Segment
Color Height (3D) Edges Height (2D) 3D missing Distance to shelf
More Features!
APC Segmentation Results
Importance of Each Feature
James J. Gibson (1904–1979) Eleanor J. Gibson (1910–2002)
1966
Objects Manipulation Activity Surveillance Kinematics
“Learning to See”
10/10/2015
Experimental Design
576-dimensional observation
Training (~ 50 minutes)
Test of Learned Behavior
What the Robot Sees and How It Learns
10/10/2015 32 Rico Jonschkowski
Learning to See
action state
reinforcement learning
robotics prior
Learning to Perceive
Learning to Perceive
Moving in An Environment With Disturbances
Moving in a “Cluttered” Environment (Robot’s View)
Performance
Different Learned Representations
How Do We Do It?
William of Ockham 1287–1347 Sir Isaac Newton 1642–1727 Rico Jonschkowski 1987–
Five Robotic Priors
Simplicity
Only a small number of world properties are relevant. The task-relevant properties and the action together determine the resulting change in these properties. The task-relevant properties together with the action determine the reward. The amount of change in task-relevant properties resulting from an action is proportional to the magnitude of the action. Task-relevant properties of the world change gradually.
Functional Relationships between DOF
feature motion
Online IP: Three Recursive Estimation Problems
measurement input input to process model
rigid body physics kinematics
rigid body motion kinematic model
spatial coherency
Visual Odometry and Online IP
feature motion
rigid body physics kinematics
rigid body motion kinematic model
spatial coherency
shape reconstruction rigid body motion (shape)
shape appearance rigid body physics
Effect of Integrated Tracking
Integrated Tracking Non-integrated Tracking
Robotic Senses Considered as a Perceptual System
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Layers of the Cortex / Connectivity of Visual Cortex
Uncertainty: the Ruler of Perception
Roberto Martín Martín Sebastian Höfer
Our Options Against Uncertainty
► Ignore it! Assume you know everything! (Ignore this.) ► Model it and then go back to the above ► Let the physics of interaction deal with it ► Stay in regions of the space (what space?) where
uncertainty is not (that) relevant to task success
Modeling it and then Go Back to the Above
Assumption: Only the world is a truthful and complete model of itself.
Explicit Reasoning about Uncertainty
no uncertainty as much uncertainty as possible High benefit/cost cost of modeling and computation Low
Let the Physics of Interaction Deal with It
Pisa/IIT Soft Hand
How to Identify Regions of Robust Interaction?
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Clemens Eppner Jessica Abele Raphael Deimel
Conclusion
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Don’t try to model the world! Instead, try to model robust, task-relevant correlations in action and perception space.
INTERACTIVE PERCEPTION How? What?