机器人社区在为软机器人设备建模提供的理论工具的复杂程度中看到了指数增长。已经提出了不同的解决方案以克服与软机器人建模相关的困难，通常利用其他科学学科，例如连续式机械和计算机图形。这些理论基础通常被认为是理所当然的，这导致复杂的文献，因此，从未得到完整审查的主题。Withing这种情况下，提交的文件的目标是双重的。突出显示涉及建模技术的不同系列的常见理论根源，采用统一语言，以简化其主要连接和差异的分析。因此，对上市接近自然如下，并最终提供在该领域的主要作品的完整，解开，审查。

近二十年来，软机器人技术一直是机器人社区中的一个热门话题。但是，对于软机器人进行建模和分析的可用工具仍然有限。本文介绍了一个用户友好的MATLAB工具箱Soft Robot Simulator（Sorosim），该工具集合了Cosserat杆的几何变量应变（GVS）模型，以促进对软，刚性或混合机器人系统的静态和动力分析。我们简要概述了工具箱的设计和结构，并通过将其结果与文献中发布的结果进行比较。为了突出该工具箱有效建模，模拟，优化和控制各种机器人系统的潜力，我们演示了四个示例应用程序。所示的应用探索了单，分支，开放式和闭合链机器人系统的不同执行器和外部加载条件。我们认为，软机器人研究社区将从Sorosim工具箱中大大受益，用于多种应用。

Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning (HRL) algorithms have been demonstrated to perform well on high-dimensional decision making and robotic control tasks. However, because they solely optimize for rewards, the agent tends to search the same space redundantly. This problem reduces the speed of learning and achieved reward. In this work, we present an Off-Policy HRL algorithm that maximizes entropy for efficient exploration. The algorithm learns a temporally abstracted low-level policy and is able to explore broadly through the addition of entropy to the high-level. The novelty of this work is the theoretical motivation of adding entropy to the RL objective in the HRL setting. We empirically show that the entropy can be added to both levels if the Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergence between consecutive updates of the low-level policy is sufficiently small. We performed an ablative study to analyze the effects of entropy on hierarchy, in which adding entropy to high-level emerged as the most desirable configuration. Furthermore, a higher temperature in the low-level leads to Q-value overestimation and increases the stochasticity of the environment that the high-level operates on, making learning more challenging. Our method, SHIRO, surpasses state-of-the-art performance on a range of simulated robotic control benchmark tasks and requires minimal tuning.

Optimal transport (OT) has become exceedingly popular in machine learning, data science, and computer vision. The core assumption in the OT problem is the equal total amount of mass in source and target measures, which limits its application. Optimal Partial Transport (OPT) is a recently proposed solution to this limitation. Similar to the OT problem, the computation of OPT relies on solving a linear programming problem (often in high dimensions), which can become computationally prohibitive. In this paper, we propose an efficient algorithm for calculating the OPT problem between two non-negative measures in one dimension. Next, following the idea of sliced OT distances, we utilize slicing to define the sliced OPT distance. Finally, we demonstrate the computational and accuracy benefits of the sliced OPT-based method in various numerical experiments. In particular, we show an application of our proposed Sliced-OPT in noisy point cloud registration.

Speed estimation of an ego vehicle is crucial to enable autonomous driving and advanced driver assistance technologies. Due to functional and legacy issues, conventional methods depend on in-car sensors to extract vehicle speed through the Controller Area Network bus. However, it is desirable to have modular systems that are not susceptible to external sensors to execute perception tasks. In this paper, we propose a novel 3D-CNN with masked-attention architecture to estimate ego vehicle speed using a single front-facing monocular camera. To demonstrate the effectiveness of our method, we conduct experiments on two publicly available datasets, nuImages and KITTI. We also demonstrate the efficacy of masked-attention by comparing our method with a traditional 3D-CNN.

Accomplishing safe and efficient driving is one of the predominant challenges in the controller design of connected automated vehicles (CAVs). It is often more convenient to address these goals separately and integrate the resulting controllers. In this study, we propose a controller integration scheme to fuse performance-based controllers and safety-oriented controllers safely for the longitudinal motion of a CAV. The resulting structure is compatible with a large class of controllers, and offers flexibility to design each controller individually without affecting the performance of the others. We implement the proposed safe integration scheme on a connected automated truck using an optimal-in-energy controller and a safety-oriented connected cruise controller. We validate the premise of the safe integration through experiments with a full-scale truck in two scenarios: a controlled experiment on a test track and a real-world experiment on a public highway. In both scenarios, we achieve energy efficient driving without violating safety.

Abusive language is a concerning problem in online social media. Past research on detecting abusive language covers different platforms, languages, demographies, etc. However, models trained using these datasets do not perform well in cross-domain evaluation settings. To overcome this, a common strategy is to use a few samples from the target domain to train models to get better performance in that domain (cross-domain few-shot training). However, this might cause the models to overfit the artefacts of those samples. A compelling solution could be to guide the models toward rationales, i.e., spans of text that justify the text's label. This method has been found to improve model performance in the in-domain setting across various NLP tasks. In this paper, we propose RAFT (Rationale Adaptor for Few-shoT classification) for abusive language detection. We first build a multitask learning setup to jointly learn rationales, targets, and labels, and find a significant improvement of 6% macro F1 on the rationale detection task over training solely rationale classifiers. We introduce two rationale-integrated BERT-based architectures (the RAFT models) and evaluate our systems over five different abusive language datasets, finding that in the few-shot classification setting, RAFT-based models outperform baseline models by about 7% in macro F1 scores and perform competitively to models finetuned on other source domains. Furthermore, RAFT-based models outperform LIME/SHAP-based approaches in terms of plausibility and are close in performance in terms of faithfulness.

Video Question Answering methods focus on commonsense reasoning and visual cognition of objects or persons and their interactions over time. Current VideoQA approaches ignore the textual information present in the video. Instead, we argue that textual information is complementary to the action and provides essential contextualisation cues to the reasoning process. To this end, we propose a novel VideoQA task that requires reading and understanding the text in the video. To explore this direction, we focus on news videos and require QA systems to comprehend and answer questions about the topics presented by combining visual and textual cues in the video. We introduce the ``NewsVideoQA'' dataset that comprises more than $8,600$ QA pairs on $3,000+$ news videos obtained from diverse news channels from around the world. We demonstrate the limitations of current Scene Text VQA and VideoQA methods and propose ways to incorporate scene text information into VideoQA methods.

相干显微镜技术提供了跨科学和技术领域的材料的无与伦比的多尺度视图，从结构材料到量子设备，从综合电路到生物细胞。在构造更明亮的来源和高速探测器的驱动下，连贯的X射线显微镜方法（如Ptychography）有望彻底改变纳米级材料的特征。但是，相关的数据和计算需求显着增加意味着，常规方法不再足以从高速相干成像实验实时恢复样品图像。在这里，我们演示了一个工作流程，该工作流利用边缘的人工智能和高性能计算，以实现直接从检测器直接从检测器流出的X射线ptychography数据实时反演。拟议的AI支持的工作流程消除了传统的Ptychography施加的采样约束，从而使用比传统方法所需的数据较少的数据级允许低剂量成像。

神经网络在与噪声扰动的图像分类中的精度较小。 CNN卷积神经网络以其在良性图像的分类中无与伦比的精度而闻名。但是我们的研究表明，它们极易受到噪声的攻击，而馈送前向神经网络，FNN与噪声扰动的对应性较小，几乎不受干扰地保持其准确性。观察到FNN可以更好地分类噪声密集的单通道图像，而这些图像只是人类视觉的巨大噪音。在我们的研究中，我们使用了以下架构的手写数字数据集，MNIST：具有1和2个隐藏层和CNN的FNN，带有3、4、6和8卷积，并分析了其准确性。 FNN脱颖而出表明，无论噪声强度如何，它们的分类精度超过85％。在我们通过此数据对CNN的分析中，CNN的分类准确性减速8卷积是其余CNN的一半。准确性趋势的相关分析和数学建模是这些结论的路线图。