ICAS 2020, The Sixteenth International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems

Type: conference

Notes: IARIA Conference.

Editors:
Roy Sterritt, Ulster University, UK
Mark J. Balas, Texas A&M University, USA
Timothy Patten, TU Wien, Austria
Geraldo Silveira, Division of Robotics and Computer Vision, CTI, Brazil
Giulia De Masi - Zayed University, UAE
Eliseo Ferrante, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands

ISSN: 2308-3913

ISBN: 978-1-61208-787-0

Location: Lisbon, Portugal

Dates: from September 27, 2020 to October 1, 2020

Articles: there are 18 articles

A Human-on-the-Loop Autonomy Architecture for Resident-AUV Undersea Support Infrastructure
Pedro Forero, LorRaine Duffy, and Eric Hendricks
keywords: Autonomy architecture; resident autonomous underwater vehicles; inspection, maintenance and repair; human-machine interaction.

Deep Learning Workload Analysis for Efficient Resource Allocation
Sayaka Takayama, Takashi Shiraishi, Shigeto Suziki, Masao Yamamoto, Yukihiro Watanabe, and Masato Oguchi
keywords: Workload analysis; MLPerf; Zabbix; Deep learning.

Contingent Planning Using Counter-Examples from a Conformant Planner
Sébastien Piedade, Alban Grastien, Charles Lesire, and Guillaume Infantes
keywords: contingent planning; autonomous decision-making; uncertainty

On Metabolic Complex Networks for Entropic Robust Autonomy
Chris Nowak and Darryn Reid
keywords: Autonomy; Resilience to Perturbations; Metabolism; Homeostasis & Allostasis; Transformations; Capability, Function & Behaviour; Self-adaptation; Curvature; Entropy.

Novel Modular Self-Reconfigurable Robot for Pipe and Plant Inspection
Sergio Leggieri, Carlo Canali, Ferdinando Cannella, and Darwin Caldwell
keywords: inspection robot; modular robots; self-reconfigurable mobile robot

A Novel System for Grasping and Handling Flat and Deformable Objects
Claudio Gloriani, Isiah Zaplana, Ferdinando Cannella, Mariapaola D’Imperio, and Emanuela Cepolina
keywords: Flat and Deformable Objects; Grasping; Robotic Manipulation; Friction; Buckling; Microspines; Rotational Hand.

Integration of Landmark Detection and Low-cost Sensors for Vehicle Localization in Challenging Environments
Yu Hsiang Wang, Jyh Ching Juang, and Muhammad Rony Hidayatullah
keywords: autonomous vehicle; computer vision; vehicle localization; high definition map; sensor fusion

Achieving Trustworthy Autonomous Systems through Autonomic and Apoptotic Computing
Roy Sterritt
keywords: Autonomic Computing; Apoptotic Computing; Autonomous Systems; Trustworthy Autonomy; Assured Autonomy; Autonomy.

Reduction of Decoherence in Quantum Information Systems Using Direct Adaptive Control of Infinite Dimensional Systems
Mark Balas
keywords: Quantum Systems, Adaptive Control, Infinite-Dimensional Systems

Data-Assisted Distributed Stabilization of Interconnected Linear Multiagent Systems without Persistency of Excitation
Vahid Rezaei and Margareta Stefanovic
keywords: Distributed Control; Decoupling Control; Finite Excitation; Interconnected Systems; Multiagent Systems

Projection-Based Inter-Agent Collision Avoidance in Dual Agent Systems
Vinod Gehlot, Mark Balas, Saptarshi Bandyopadhyay, Marco Quadrelli, and David Bayard
keywords: Inter-agent collision avoidance, Collision mitigation, Multi-agent systems, Swarms, Interconnected systems, Motion plan- ning, Projection operator

Area Inspection by Robot Swarms Through Exploitation of Information Gain
Carlos Carbone, Dario Albani, Daniele Nardi, Dimitri Ognibene, and Vito Trianni
keywords: Swarm Robotics; Entropy; Information Gain; Random Walk

Imitating Task-oriented Grasps from Human Demonstrations with a Low-DoF Gripper
Timothy Patten and Markus Vincze
keywords: Robotic grasping; task-oriented grasping; learning from demonstration; imitation learning; deep learning

Semantic Segmentation for the Estimation of Plant and Soil Parameters on Agricultural Machines
Peter Riegler-Nurscher, Johann Prankl, and Markus Vincze
keywords: Semantic Segmentation, Agriculture

Computation of Suitable Grasp Pose for Usage of Objects Based on Predefined Training and Real-time Pose Estimation
Muhammed Tawfiq Chowdhury, Shuvo Kumar Paul, Monica Nicolescu, Mircea Nicolescu, David Feil-Seifer, and Sergiu Dascalu
keywords: Robotics; Homogeneous Transformation; Pose Estimation; Grasping; Objects Usage

Reference Detection for Off-road Self-Driving Vehicles Using Deep Learning
Marcelo Pederiva and Ely de Paiva
keywords: YOLO; Faster RCNN; SSD; Object Detection; Autonomous Vehicles.

In the Depths of Hyponymy: A Step Towards Lifelong Learning
Tommaso Boccato, Timothy Patten, Markus Vincze, and Stefano Ghidoni
keywords: Classification; Lifelong learning; Open set learning

Towards a Unified Approach to Homography Estimation Using Image Features and Pixel Intensities
Lucas A. C. O. Nogueira, Ely C. Paiva, and Geraldo Silveira
keywords: robot vision, homography optimization, hybrid approaches, vision-based applications