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- Arain, Muhammad Asif, 1983-, et al.
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Efficient Measurement Planning for Remote Gas Sensing with Mobile Robots
- 2015
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Ingår i: 2015 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). - Washington, USA : IEEE. - 9781479969234 ; , s. 3428-3434
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The problem of gas detection is relevant to manyreal-world applications, such as leak detection in industrialsettings and surveillance. In this paper we address the problemof gas detection in large areas with a mobile robotic platformequipped with a remote gas sensor. We propose a novelmethod based on convex relaxation for quickly finding anexploration plan that guarantees a complete coverage of theenvironment. Our method proves to be highly efficient in termsof computational requirements and to provide nearly-optimalsolutions. We validate our approach both in simulation andin real environments, thus demonstrating its applicability toreal-world problems.
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- Arain, Muhammad Asif, 1983-
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Efficient Remote Gas Inspection with an Autonomous Mobile Robot
- 2020
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Human-caused greenhouse gas emissions are one of the major sources of global warming, which is threatening to reach a tipping point. Inspection systems that can provide direct information about critical factors causing global warming, such as systems for gas detection and location of gas sources, are urgently needed to analyze the fugitive emissions and take necessary actions.This thesis presents an autonomous robotic system capable of performing efficient exploration by selecting informative sampling positions for gas detection and gas distribution mapping – the Autonomous Remote Methane Explorer (ARMEx). In the design choice of ARMEx, a ground robot carries a spectroscopybased remote gas sensor, such as a Remote Methane Leak Detector (RMLD), that collects integral gas measurements along up to 30 m long optical-beams. The sensor is actuated to sample a large area inside an adjustable field of view, and with the mobility of the robot, adaptive sampling for high spatial resolution in the areas of interest is made possible to inspect large environments.In a typical gas sampling mission, the robot needs to localize itself and plan a traveling path to visit different locations in the area, which is a largely solved problem. However, the state-of-the-art prior to this thesis fell short of providing the capability to select informative sampling positions autonomously. This thesis introduces efficient measurement strategies to bring autonomy to mobile remote gas sensing. The strategies are based on sensor planning algorithms that minimize the number of measurements and distance traveled while optimizing the inspection criteria: full sensing coverage of the area for gas detection, and suitably overlapping sensing coverage of different viewpoints around areas of interest for gas distribution mapping.A prototype implementation of ARMEx was deployed in a large, real-world environment where inspection missions performed by the autonomous system were compared with runs teleoperated by human experts. In six experimental trials, the autonomous system created better gas maps, located more gas sources correctly, and provided better sensing coverage with fewer sensing positions than human experts.
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- Arain, Muhammad Asif, 1983-, et al.
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Global coverage measurement planning strategies for mobile robots equipped with a remote gas sensor
- 2015
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Ingår i: Sensors. - Basel, Switzerland : MDPI. - 1424-8220. ; 15:3, s. 6845-6871
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The problem of gas detection is relevant to many real-world applications, such as leak detection in industrial settings and landfill monitoring. In this paper, we address the problem of gas detection in large areas with a mobile robotic platform equipped with a remote gas sensor. We propose an algorithm that leverages a novel method based on convex relaxation for quickly solving sensor placement problems, and for generating an efficient exploration plan for the robot. To demonstrate the applicability of our method to real-world environments, we performed a large number of experimental trials, both on randomly generated maps and on the map of a real environment. Our approach proves to be highly efficient in terms of computational requirements and to provide nearly-optimal solutions.
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- Banaee, Hadi, 1986-, et al.
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Data-Driven Conceptual Spaces : Creating Semantic Representations for Linguistic Descriptions of Numerical Data
- 2018
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Ingår i: The journal of artificial intelligence research. - : AAAI Press. - 1076-9757 .- 1943-5037. ; 63, s. 691-742
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- There is an increasing need to derive semantics from real-world observations to facilitate natural information sharing between machine and human. Conceptual spaces theory is a possible approach and has been proposed as mid-level representation between symbolic and sub-symbolic representations, whereby concepts are represented in a geometrical space that is characterised by a number of quality dimensions. Currently, much of the work has demonstrated how conceptual spaces are created in a knowledge-driven manner, relying on prior knowledge to form concepts and identify quality dimensions. This paper presents a method to create semantic representations using data-driven conceptual spaces which are then used to derive linguistic descriptions of numerical data. Our contribution is a principled approach to automatically construct a conceptual space from a set of known observations wherein the quality dimensions and domains are not known a priori. This novelty of the approach is the ability to select and group semantic features to discriminate between concepts in a data-driven manner while preserving the semantic interpretation that is needed to infer linguistic descriptions for interaction with humans. Two data sets representing leaf images and time series signals are used to evaluate the method. An empirical evaluation for each case study assesses how well linguistic descriptions generated from the conceptual spaces identify unknown observations. Furthermore, comparisons are made with descriptions derived on alternative approaches for generating semantic models.
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- Banaee, Hadi, 1986-
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From Numerical Sensor Data to Semantic Representations : A Data-driven Approach for Generating Linguistic Descriptions
- 2018
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In our daily lives, sensors recordings are becoming more and more ubiquitous. With the increased availability of data comes the increased need of systems that can represent the data in human interpretable concepts. In order to describe unknown observations in natural language, an artificial intelligence system must deal with several issues involving perception, concept formation, and linguistic description. These issues cover various subfields within artificial intelligence, such as machine learning, cognitive science, and natural language generation.The aim of this thesis is to address the problem of semantically modelling and describing numerical observations from sensor data. This thesis introduces data-driven approaches to perform the tasks of mining numerical data and creating semantic representations of the derived information in order to describe unseen but interesting observations in natural language.The research considers creating a semantic representation using the theory of conceptual spaces. In particular, the central contribution of this thesis is to present a data-driven approach that automatically constructs conceptual spaces from labelled numerical data sets. This constructed conceptual space then utilises semantic inference techniques to derive linguistic interpretations for novel unknown observations. Another contribution of this thesis is to explore an instantiation of the proposed approach in a real-world application. Specifically, this research investigates a case study where the proposed approach is used to describe unknown time series patterns that emerge from physiological sensor data. This instantiation first presents automatic data analysis methods to extract time series patterns and temporal rules from multiple channels of physiological sensor data, and then applies various linguistic description approaches (including the proposed semantic representation based on conceptual spaces) to generate human-readable natural language descriptions for such time series patterns and temporal rules.The main outcome of this thesis is the use of data-driven strategies that enable the system to reveal and explain aspects of sensor data which may otherwise be difficult to capture by knowledge-driven techniques alone. Briefly put, the thesis aims to automate the process whereby unknown observations of data can be 1) numerically analysed, 2) semantically represented, and eventually 3) linguistically described.
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