Human-Inspired Forgetting for Robotic Systems

Adviser: Prof. Julie A. Adams

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

Sanford T. Freedman and Julie A. Adams. Human-Inspired Robotic Forgetting: Filtering to Improve Estimation Accuracy. In Proceedings of the 14^th IASTED International Conference on Robotics and Applications, pages 434-441, 2009. (pdf ) (
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Sanford T. Freedman and Julie A. Adams. Improving robot situational awareness through commonsense:Side-stepping incompleteness and unsoundness. Technical report HMT-09-03, Human-Machine Laboratory Technical Report, 2009. (pdf ) (
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Sanford T. Freedman. Human Inspired Forgetting for Robotics Systems: Ph.D. Proposal. Technical report HMT-09-02, Human-Machine Laboratory Technical Report, 2009. (pdf ) (
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Sanford T. Freedman and Julie A. Adams. Synthetic Cognitive Agent Situational Awareness Components. In AAAI Fall Symposium on Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures, AAAI Technical Report FS-08-04, page 62, 2008. (pdf ) (
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Sanford T. Freedman and Julie A. Adams. Synthetic Cognitive Agent Situational AwarenessComponents. Technical report HMT-08-04, Human-Machine Laboratory Technical Report, 2008. (pdf ) (
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Sanford T. Freedman. Robots that forget: Improving Robot Situational Awareness by Purging Information - Preliminary Examination Paper. Technical report HMT-08-03, Human-Machine Laboratory Technical Report, 2008. (pdf ) (
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Sanford T. Freedman and Julie A. Adams. 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. (pdf ) (
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Julie A. Adams and Sanford T. Freedman. Unmanned System Autonomy, Situation Awareness, and System Safety. In Proceedings of the 25^th International System Safety Conference, pages 800-810, 2007. (pdf ) (
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Human-Inspired Forgetting for Robotic Systems

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