Coarobo GK Founder Receives Best Paper Award at IEEE/SICE SII 2023

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Coarobo GK Founder Receives Best Paper Award at IEEE/SICE SII 2023

Atlanta, United StatesJanuary 20, 2023

Coarobo GK is pleased to announce that a co-authored research paper involving its President & Founder, Lotfi El Hafi, received a Best Paper Award at the 2023 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration (SII 2023), held in Atlanta, USA, from January 17 to 20, 2023. The symposium is co-sponsored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers (SICE) . The award was conferred at the closing ceremony on January 20, 2023.

The award-winning paper, titled "Inferring Place-Object Relationships by Integrating Probabilistic Logic and Multimodal Spatial Concepts" , was co-authored by Shoichi Hasegawa, Akira Taniguchi, Yoshinobu Hagiwara, Lotfi El Hafi, and Tadahiro Taniguchi, with the other co-authors affiliated with Ritsumeikan University. The study proposes a novel method that integrates probabilistic logic with multimodal spatial concepts, allowing a service robot to acquire place-object relationships in a new home environment with only a few learning iterations.

This recognition reflects years of joint research with co-authors at Ritsumeikan University and the wider service-robotics community. We are grateful to the IEEE/SICE SII 2023 organizers, and we look forward to continuing to translate this kind of fundamental research into practical, deployable tools for the industry.

Lotfi El Hafi, President & Founder of Coarobo GK

Coarobo GK extends its sincere appreciation to the SII 2023 Award Committee, all co-authors, and the supporting institutions for this recognition.

Citation

S. Hasegawa, A. Taniguchi, Y. Hagiwara, L. El Hafi, and T. Taniguchi, โ€œInferring Place-Object Relationships by Integrating Probabilistic Logic and Multimodal Spatial Concepts,โ€ in Proceedings of 2023 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration (SII 2023), pp. 1-8, Atlanta, United States, Jan. 17, 2023. DOI: 10.1109/SII55687.2023.10039318

Abstract

"We propose a novel method that integrates probabilistic logic and multimodal spatial concepts to enable a robot to acquire the relationships between places and objects in a new environment with a few learning times. Using predicate logic with probability values (i.e., probabilistic logic) to represent commonsense knowledge of place-object relationships, we combine logical inference using probabilistic logic with the cross-modal inference that can calculate the conditional probabilities of other modalities given one modality. This allows the robot to infer the place of the object to find even when it does not know the likely place of the object in the home environment. We conducted experiments in which a robot searched for daily objects, including objects with undefined places, in a simulated home environment using four approaches: 1) multimodal spatial concepts only, 2) commonsense knowledge only, 3) commonsense knowledge and multimodal spatial concepts, and 4) probabilistic logic and multimodal spatial concepts (proposed). We confirmed the effectiveness of the proposed method by comparing the number of place visits it took for the robot to find all the objects. We also observed that our proposed approach reduces the on-site learning cost by a factor of 1.6 over the three baseline methods when the robot performs the task of finding objects with undefined places in a new home environment."

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