HumanInspiredForgettingForRoboticSystems
Exploring the potential benefits of incorporating human-inspired forgetting mechanisms into robotic systems. A new model of forgetting, named ActSimple, has been developed to increase the ability of robots to wade through the waves of data generated by robotic sensors. Unlike some existing models of human forgetting and robotic systems, the proposed forgetting approach does not select items from memory, but filters the data available to existing algorithms. Through this data screening, traditional robotic algorithms may realize improved performance and increased accuracy. Results from completed experiments suggest ActSimple may not only provide the benefits of forgetting to robotics, but realize increased performance over a number of existing algorithms. ActSimple is a non-domain specific algorithm with a number of parameters and subcomponents that can be adjusted for particular domains and tasks.
Selected Publications
Dissertation
Freedman, Sanford T. Human-Inspired Forgetting for Robotic Systems. Ph.D. thesis, Vanderbilt University, December 2010. BibTeX
@PHDTHESIS{Freedman2010,
author = {Sanford T. Freedman},
title = {Human-Inspired Forgetting for Robotic Systems},
school = {Vanderbilt University},
year = {2010},
month = {December},
url = {https://www.sanfordfreedman.com/media/papers/Human-Inspired_Forgetting_for_Robotic_Systems.pdf}
}
Journal articles
Freedman, Sanford T. and Adams, Julie A. Filtering data based on human-inspired forgetting. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics - Part B, 41(6):1544-1555, December 2010. BibTeX
@ARTICLE{Freedman2010b,
author = {Sanford T. Freedman and Julie A. Adams},
title = {Filtering Data Based on Human-Inspired Forgetting},
journal = {IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics - Part B},
year = {2011},
volume = {41},
pages = {1544-1555},
number = {6},
month = {December},
url = {https://www.sanfordfreedman.com/media/papers/Filtering_Data_Based_on_Human-Inspired_Forgetting.pdf}
}
Conference papers
Freedman, Sanford T. and Adams, Julie A. Human-inspired robotic forgetting: Filtering to improve estimation accuracy. In Proceedings of the 14th IASTED International Conference on Robotics and Applications, pages 434–441, 2009. BibTeX
@INPROCEEDINGS{Freedman2009,
author = {Sanford T. Freedman and Julie A. Adams},
title = {Human-Inspired Robotic Forgetting: Filtering to Improve Estimation Accuracy},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 14\textsuperscript{th} IASTED International Conference
on Robotics and Applications},
year = {2009},
pages = {434-441},
location = {Cambridge, MA, USA},
url = {https://www.sanfordfreedman.com/media/papers/664-085.pdf}
}
Adams, Julie A. and Freedman, Sanford T. Unmanned system autonomy, situation awareness, and system safety. In Proceedings of the 25th International System Safety Conference, pages 800–810, 2007. BibTeX
@INPROCEEDINGS{Adams2007,
author = {Julie A. Adams and Sanford T. Freedman},
title = {Unmanned System Autonomy, Situation Awareness, and System Safety},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 25\textsuperscript{th} International System
Safety Conference},
year = {2007},
pages = {800-810},
url = {https://www.sanfordfreedman.com/media/papers/AdamsSysSafety07.pdf}
}
Freedman, Sanford T. and Adams, Julie A. The inherent components of unmanned vehicle situation awareness. In Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, pages 973–977, 2007. BibTeX
@INPROCEEDINGS{Freedman2007,
author = {Sanford T. Freedman and Julie A. Adams},
title = {The Inherent Components of Unmanned Vehicle Situation Awareness},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Systems,
Man and Cybernetics},
year = {2007},
pages = {973-977},
url = {https://www.sanfordfreedman.com/media/papers/FreedmanSMC07.pdf}
}
Symposium papers
Freedman, Sanford T. and Adams, Julie A. Synthetic cognitive agent situational awareness components. In AAAI Fall Symposium on Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures, AAAI Technical Report FS-08-04, page 62, 2008. BibTeX
@CONFERENCE{Freedman2008,
author = {Sanford T. Freedman and Julie A. Adams},
title = {Synthetic Cognitive Agent Situational Awareness Components},
booktitle = {AAAI Fall Symposium on Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures,
AAAI Technical Report FS-08-04},
year = {2008},
pages = {62},
url = {https://www.sanfordfreedman.com/media/papers/Freedman08W.pdf}
}
Technical reports
Freedman, Sanford T. Human inspired forgetting for robotics systems: Ph.D. Proposal. Technical Report HMT-09-02, Human-Machine Laboratory Technical Report, 2009. BibTeX
@TECHREPORT{Freedman2009b,
author = {Sanford T. Freedman},
title = {Human Inspired Forgetting for Robotics Systems: {Ph.D. Proposal}},
institution = {Human-Machine Laboratory Technical Report},
year = {2009},
number = {HMT-09-02},
url = {https://www.sanfordfreedman.com/media/papers/HMT-09-02.pdf}
}
Freedman, Sanford T. and Adams, Julie A. Improving robot situational awareness through commonsense: sidestepping incompleteness and unsoundness. Technical Report HMT-09-03, Human-Machine Laboratory Technical Report, 2009. BibTeX
@TECHREPORT{Freedman2009c,
author = {Sanford T. Freedman and Julie A. Adams},
title = {Improving robot situational awareness through commonsense:
Side-stepping incompleteness and unsoundness},
institution = {Human-Machine Laboratory Technical Report},
year = {2009},
number = {HMT-09-03},
url = {https://www.sanfordfreedman.com/media/papers/HMT-09-03.pdf}
}
Freedman, Sanford T. Robots that forget: Improving robot situational awareness by purging information - preliminary examination paper. Technical Report HMT-08-03, Human-Machine Laboratory Technical Report, 2008. BibTeX
@TECHREPORT{Freedman2008c,
author = {Sanford T. Freedman},
title = {Robots that forget: Improving Robot Situational Awareness by Purging
Information - Preliminary Examination Paper},
institution = {Human-Machine Laboratory Technical Report},
year = {2008},
number = {HMT-08-03},
url = {https://www.sanfordfreedman.com/media/papers/HMT-08-03.pdf}
}
Freedman, Sanford T. and Adams, Julie A. Synthetic cognitive agent situational awareness components. Technical Report HMT-08-04, Human-Machine Laboratory Technical Report, 2008. BibTeX
@TECHREPORT{Freedman2008b,
author = {Sanford T. Freedman and Julie A. Adams},
title = {Synthetic Cognitive Agent Situational Awareness Components},
institution = {Human-Machine Laboratory Technical Report},
year = {2008},
number = {HMT-08-04},
url = {https://www.sanfordfreedman.com/media/papers/HMT-08-04.pdf}
}
Media Coverage
@MISC{Grifantini2009,
author = {Kristina Grifantini},
title = {Absent-minded Robots Remember What Matters},
howpublished = {Technology Review, MIT},
month = {November 6\textsuperscript{th}},
year = {2009},
url = {{\url{https://www.technologyreview.com/2009/11/06/208331/absent-minded-robots-remember-what-matters}}}
}
@MISC{Vieru2009,
author = {Tudor Vieru},
title = {Making Robots Absent-Minded Boosts Their Memory},
howpublished = {Softpedia},
month = {November 7\textsuperscript{th}},
year = {2009},
url = {{\url{http://news.softpedia.com/news/Making-Robots-Absent-Minded-Boosts-Their-Memory-126393.shtml}}}
}