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SUMMARY:Teaching Robots Social Autonomy from In Situ Human Supervision
DTSTART:20190214T110000
DTEND:20190214T120000
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Dr Emmanuel Senft\, Plymouth University \nTraditionally the b
 ehaviour of social robots has been programmed by engineers\, but robots sh
 ould be able to learn from their users to increase their range of applicat
 ion and improve their behaviour over time. This talk will start by present
 ing Supervised Progressively Autonomous Robot Competencies (SPARC)\, a mac
 hine learning framework enabling non-technical users to control and teach 
 a robot to interact meaningfully with people in an efficient and safe way.
  The core premise is that the user initially remotely operates the robot\,
  while an algorithm associates actions to states and gradually learns. Ove
 r time\, the robot is able to take over from the user while still giving t
 he user oversight of its behaviour by ensuring that every action the robot
  executes has been actively or passively approved by the user. The latter 
 half of this talk will present results of a recent study evaluating SPARC 
 in a real human-robots interaction where a robot was taught to support chi
 ldren in an educational activity.
LOCATION:Martigny: room 106 https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1Wi7C
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