2015 Humanitarian Robotics and Automation Technology Challenge [Humanitarian Technology]

Madhavan, Raj; Marques, Lino; Prestes, Edson; Maffei, Renan; Jorge, Vítor Oliveira; Gil, Baptiste; Dogru, Sedat; Cabrita, Gonçalo; Neuland, Renata; Dasgupta, Prithviraj

doi:10.1109/mra.2015.2452199

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“…Blended teaching is a new learning environment created with the help of the internet platform. Students no longer only complete the entire learning process under the face-to-face guidance of teachers, but with the assistance of teachers, acquire knowledge through face-to-face learning and online learning in the classroom and complete the cognitive process of the entire knowledge [12].…”

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Effect of Blended Teaching Mode in Colleges and Universities Based on Automation Technology on College Students’ English Performance

Yan

2022

Mobile Information Systems

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In today’s society, the rapid development of information technology has had a profound impact on human work and life as well as on education. In recent years, the rapid development of the Internet and information technology has laid a solid foundation for the digital transmission of information, which has changed the mode of information transmission and improved the efficiency of information dissemination. As an important part of network information dissemination, blended teaching is rapidly developing from an on-demand learning platform to an interactive learning platform and has now become a blended teaching platform in China. The main problem of the current blended teaching model is that the effect of improving performance is not good. In order to solve this problem, this paper introduces automation technology, which can significantly improve the extraction accuracy of information extraction methods in specific fields by using rich domain knowledge and features and complete the extraction tasks at multiple levels. The automation method based on automation technology has great advantages in this regard and effectively improves the English performance. Two groups of voluntary college students were randomly selected to conduct a one-semester blended teaching model designed in this paper to investigate the ’students’ English scores. The average grades of students were 95.2, 96.7, 96.8, and 97.2, respectively, which is a big improvement over the existing system.

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Section: Effect Of Blended Teaching Mode On Collegementioning

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Effect of Blended Teaching Mode in Colleges and Universities Based on Automation Technology on College Students’ English Performance

Yan

2022

Mobile Information Systems

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“…This is adapted from the robotic demining task in the Humanitarian Robotics and Automation Technology Challenge (HRATC) 2015 (Madhavan et al, 2015). It requires an agent to sweep a field, represented as a 10 × 10 grid, to detect and report landmines.…”

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“…Partially Observable Monte-Carlo Planning (POMCP) (Silver and Veness, 2010) and DESPOT (Somani et al, 2013) are among the fastest online POMDP algorithms available today. DESPOT has found applications in many different robotic tasks, including autonomous driving in a crowd (Bai et al, 2015), robot demining in Humanitarian Robotics and Automation Technology Challenge 2015 (Madhavan et al, 2015), and push manipulation (Koval et al, 2016a). One key idea underlying both POMCP and DESPOT is the use of Monte Carlo simulation to sample future events and evaluate the quality of candidate policies.…”

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Importance sampling for online planning under uncertainty

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The International Journal of Robotics Research

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The partially observable Markov decision process (POMDP) provides a principled general framework for robot planning under uncertainty. Leveraging the idea of Monte Carlo sampling, recent POMDP planning algorithms have scaled up to various challenging robotic tasks, including, real-time online planning for autonomous vehicles. To further improve online planning performance, this paper presents IS-DESPOT, which introduces importance sampling to DESPOT, a state-of-the-art sampling-based POMDP algorithm for planning under uncertainty. Importance sampling improves DESPOT’s performance when there are critical, but rare events, which are difficult to sample. We prove that IS-DESPOT retains the theoretical guarantee of DESPOT. We demonstrate empirically that importance sampling significantly improves the performance of online POMDP planning for suitable tasks. We also present a general method for learning the importance sampling distribution.

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“…While other solutions exist, they are prohibitively expensive and are not practical for the developing world, where the bulk of these mines are buried. The emphasis of the HRATC from the beginning has been the development of cost-effective and sustainable solutions for such communities (Madhavan et al, 2014;Madhavan et al, 2015;Prestes et al, 2016).…”

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Robotics and automation for societal good: Global South challenges and technology-policy considerations

Madhavan¹

2018

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Robotics and automation and artificial intelligence technologies hold immense potential in addressing many of the societal challenges as exemplified in the sustainable development goals of the 2030 agenda of the United Nations. They have the potential not only to increase the standard of living in developed countries, but to improve the quality of life in the so-called «Global South». This article discusses underlying challenges and technology-policy considerations when deploying emerging technologies in developing and developed economies. Various examples and implementations in collaboration with humanitarians, researchers and developers, and professional organizations across the globe are outlined.

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2015 Humanitarian Robotics and Automation Technology Challenge [Humanitarian Technology]

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Effect of Blended Teaching Mode in Colleges and Universities Based on Automation Technology on College Students’ English Performance

Effect of Blended Teaching Mode in Colleges and Universities Based on Automation Technology on College Students’ English Performance

Importance sampling for online planning under uncertainty

Robotics and automation for societal good: Global South challenges and technology-policy considerations

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