Title :
Learning by an autonomous robot at a process control panel
Author :
Spelt, P.F. ; de Saussure, G. ; Lyness, E. ; Pin, F.G. ; Weisbin, C.R.
Author_Institution :
Oak Ridge Nat. Lab., TN, USA
Abstract :
The authors describe initial work in autonomous learning, using HERMIES-IIB, their current robotic experimental testbed. The integrated system in HERMIES-IIB (the hostile environment robotic machine intelligence experiment, series IIB) is the latest in a series of autonomous, intelligent machines designed to perform in environments that humans cannot readily enter. They describe a system that learns the control panel´s system dynamics and remembers the most efficient series of responses to shut down a control process in case of future encounters with similar (but not necessarily identical) situations. Ultimately, this system could infer a classification scheme for panel categories, enabling it to hypothesize about correct response sequences for panels not yet encountered. They discuss preliminary work on the system´s inferencing section.<>
Keywords :
artificial intelligence; industrial robots; inference mechanisms; learning systems; process computer control; HERMIES-IIB; autonomous learning; autonomous robot; classification scheme; hostile environment robotic machine intelligence experiment; inferencing section; integrated system; process control panel; Cognitive robotics; Error correction; Humans; Intelligent robots; Laboratories; Machine learning; Process control; Robot control; Signal analysis; Testing;
Journal_Title :
IEEE Expert
