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A Flexible MATLAB/Simulink Simulator for Robotic Floating-base Systems in Contact with the Ground

Guedelha, Nuno, Pasandi, Venus, L'Erario, Giuseppe, Traversaro, Silvio, Pucci, Daniele

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Physics simulators are widely used in robotics fields, from mechanical design to dynamic simulation, and controller design. This paper presents an open-source MATLAB/Simulink simulator for rigid-body articulated systems, including manipulators and floating-base robots. Thanks to MATLAB/Simulink features like MATLAB system classes and Simulink function blocks, the presented simulator combines a programmatic and block-based approach, resulting in a flexible design in the sense that different parts, including its physics engine, robot-ground interaction model, and state evolution algorithm are simply accessible and editable. Moreover, through the use of Simulink dynamic mask blocks, the proposed simulation framework supports robot models integrating open-chain and closed-chain kinematics with any desired number of links interacting with the ground. The simulator can also integrate second-order actuator dynamics. Furthermore, the simulator benefits from a one-line installation and an easy-to-use Simulink interface.


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Three Ways AI Is Helping Manufacturers

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Thanks to the global supply chain and growth of middle-class culture, manufacturers are under tremendous pressure to make high quality goods that customer desire at a price they can afford. One technology that's increasingly being used to help manufacturers meet these requirements, grow their market share, and boost profitability is artificial intelligence. As MathWorks' Industry Manager for Industrial Automation & Machinery, Philipp Wallner has a front-row view into how some of the most advanced manufacturers are adopting technology, including modeling, simulation, digital twins, and AI. The company's two main offerings, the MATLAB statistical programming environment and SimuLink, which is used for modeling and simulation, are instrumental in meeting these goals. Based on Wallner's experience, there are three main ways that manufacturers are putting AI to use in their shops. Manufacturers typically run continuous operations, so any downtime for maintaining or repairing machinery directly impacts the bottom line.


Detecting Safety Problems of Multi-Sensor Fusion in Autonomous Driving

Zhong, Ziyuan, Hu, Zhisheng, Guo, Shengjian, Zhang, Xinyang, Zhong, Zhenyu, Ray, Baishakhi

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Autonomous driving (AD) systems have been thriving in recent years. In general, they receive sensor data, compute driving decisions, and output control signals to the vehicles. To smooth out the uncertainties brought by sensor inputs, AD systems usually leverage multi-sensor fusion (MSF) to fuse the sensor inputs and produce a more reliable understanding of the surroundings. However, MSF cannot completely eliminate the uncertainties since it lacks the knowledge about which sensor provides the most accurate data. As a result, critical consequences might happen unexpectedly. In this work, we observed that the popular MSF methods in an industry-grade Advanced Driver-Assistance System (ADAS) can mislead the car control and result in serious safety hazards. Misbehavior can happen regardless of the used fusion methods and the accurate data from at least one sensor. To attribute the safety hazards to a MSF method, we formally define the fusion errors and propose a way to distinguish safety violations causally induced by such errors. Further, we develop a novel evolutionary-based domain-specific search framework, FusionFuzz, for the efficient detection of fusion errors. We evaluate our framework on two widely used MSF methods. %in two driving environments. Experimental results show that FusionFuzz identifies more than 150 fusion errors. Finally, we provide several suggestions to improve the MSF methods under study.


Why data preparation is crucial in artificial intelligence (AI) workflows - EDN

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For design engineers, an artificial intelligence (AI) workflow encompasses four steps: data preparation, modeling, simulation and testing, and deployment. While all steps are important, many engineers often overemphasize the modeling stage, presuming that it plays the largest role in producing accurate insights. However, since data flows throughout the entire AI workflow, the initial data preparation step is crucial. It ensures that the most useful data is entered into a model. Figure 1 Data is the driving force in the development of an AI workflow.


Domino Data Lab Launches Inaugural Partner Program Targeting Service, Technology Providers

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Domino Data Lab is launching the company's first partner program today as the data science and MLOps software developer looks to scale up its work with service and technology partners and provide them with a structured program with more resources and benefits. The new Domino Partner Network will provide structure for what has largely been ad hoc partner processes, according to Domino executives. It will help the company expand and scale its work with partners and provide them with needed training, go-to-market resources and incentives. "Our push to formalize this partner program and to work with a wider range of partners is really being driven by our customers," CEO Nick Elprin said in an interview with CRN. "At a high level, what we're doing is formalizing an approach and a structure for how we work with partners."


The Multiple Faces of Digital Twins

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Digital twins are emerging as a hot technology, particularly among manufacturers and companies involved with the Industrial Internet of Things. Depending on the use cases, though, customers may opt for one type of digital twin over another. To a certain extent, every digital twin is a unique creation. The ability to create a digitized copy of an actual physical asset, such as a wind turbine or a locomotive, and measure how that model responds and reacts to different inputs is the fundamental breakthrough that is driving adoption of digital twin technologies. But there are a few broad categories of digital twins, and companies that are considering adopting a digital twin would do well to explore how their use cases match up to these types.


Early Detection of Sepsis using Ensemblers

Nirgudkar, Shailesh, Ding, Tianyu

arXiv.org Machine Learning

This paper describes a methodology to detect sepsis ahead of time by analyzing hourly patient records. The Physionet 2019 challenge consists of medical records of over 40,000 patients. Using imputation and weak ensembler technique to analyze these medical records and 3-fold validation, a model is created and validated internally. The model achieved an accuracy of 93.45% and a utility score of 0.271. The utility score as defined by the organizers takes into account true positives, negatives and false alarms.


Deep Learning Examples: R2020a Edition

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With two releases every year, you may find it challenging to keep up with the latest features.* In fact, some people who work here feel the same way! This release, I asked the Product Managers about the new features related to deep learning that they think you should know about in release 20a. Here are their responses: Deep Learning Starting with Deep Learning Toolbox, there are three new features to get excited about in 20a. Experiment Manager (new) - A new app that keeps track all conditions when training neural networks.