{"title":"When Robots Meet Artificial Intelligence: Let’s Do Better to Gain People’s Trust [From the Editor’s Desk]","authors":"Yi Guo","doi":"10.1109/mra.2024.3428148","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/mra.2024.3428148","url":null,"abstract":"In a closed-door discussion that I attended recently, the award committee was debating whether to award the best student paper to a reinforcement learning-based robotics work with simulations using open datasets, or a robotics work using more traditional model-based methods with real robot experiments. Much more deliberation took place to reach the decision, and I’m not going to reveal which paper won the award, although, I must say both papers deserve recognition for being finalists in the competition. As a researcher who studied both classic dynamic model-based methods and machine learning-based methods to control robots, I have no bias toward either one, and I think the best solution for complex robotics problems may lie in better integrating of the two methods.","PeriodicalId":55019,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine","volume":"52 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2024-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142198986","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Call for Students Participating in IEEE Robotic Standardization Efforts (SPIRSE) [Society News]","authors":"","doi":"10.1109/mra.2024.3428209","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/mra.2024.3428209","url":null,"abstract":"The IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS) is interested in encouraging students to play an active role in existing robotics standardization efforts. The RAS has multiple standardization efforts, which can be found at <uri xmlns:mml=\"http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML\" xmlns:xlink=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink\">https://www.ieee-ras.org/industry-government/standards</uri>\u0000. To help encourage student participation, funds have been set aside to provide travel support to students interested in attending the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) (\u0000<uri xmlns:mml=\"http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML\" xmlns:xlink=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink\">https://2025.ieee-icra.org/</uri>\u0000) in Atlanta, GA, USA, from 19 May to 23 May, where numerous IEEE robotics standardization meetings will be held.","PeriodicalId":55019,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine","volume":"81 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2024-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142198998","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Davide Brugali, Ana Cavalcanti, Nico Hochgeschwender, Patrizio Pelliccione, Luciana Rebelo
{"title":"Future Directions in Software Engineering for Autonomous Robots: An Agenda for Trustworthiness [Opinion]","authors":"Davide Brugali, Ana Cavalcanti, Nico Hochgeschwender, Patrizio Pelliccione, Luciana Rebelo","doi":"10.1109/mra.2024.3417089","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/mra.2024.3417089","url":null,"abstract":"Software engineering for autonomous robots investigates the synergetic interaction of computing and robotic technologies; this synergy is both realistic and strategic. On one hand, software engineering techniques and methods have the potential to enhance the quality of the software that controls autonomous robots and the effectiveness of software development processes in the robotic industry. In addition, they can provide evidence of that improved quality to foster trustworthiness of the robot via advanced verification techniques based on testing, simulation, or even mathematical proof. On the other hand, autonomous robots represent a significant benchmark for software engineering techniques and approaches, and many technologies that have been successfully applied in robotics (e.g., from control theory to automated planning) are now a source of inspiration for software engineers.","PeriodicalId":55019,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine","volume":"3 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2024-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142198988","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cora A. Dimmig, Giuseppe Silano, Kimberly McGuire, Chiara Gabellieri, Wolfgang Hönig, Joseph Moore, Marin Kobilarov
{"title":"Survey of Simulators for Aerial Robots: An Overview and In-Depth Systematic Comparisons","authors":"Cora A. Dimmig, Giuseppe Silano, Kimberly McGuire, Chiara Gabellieri, Wolfgang Hönig, Joseph Moore, Marin Kobilarov","doi":"10.1109/mra.2024.3433171","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/mra.2024.3433171","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55019,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine","volume":"17 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2024-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142199005","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Dandan Zhang, Ziniu Wu, Jin Zheng, Yifan Li, Zheng Dong, Jialin Lin
{"title":"HuBotVerse: Toward Internet of Human and Intelligent Robotic Things With a Digital Twin-Based Mixed Reality Framework","authors":"Dandan Zhang, Ziniu Wu, Jin Zheng, Yifan Li, Zheng Dong, Jialin Lin","doi":"10.1109/mra.2024.3417090","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/mra.2024.3417090","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55019,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine","volume":"135 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2024-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142199007","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Bas van der Heijden, Jelle Luijkx, Laura Ferranti, Jens Kober, Robert Babuska
{"title":"Engine Agnostic Graph Environments for Robotics (EAGERx): A Graph-Based Framework for Sim2real Robot Learning","authors":"Bas van der Heijden, Jelle Luijkx, Laura Ferranti, Jens Kober, Robert Babuska","doi":"10.1109/mra.2024.3433172","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/mra.2024.3433172","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55019,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine","volume":"73 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2024-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141948868","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dynamic Importance-Weighted Fusion Network Based on Dynamic Convolutions for Hand Posture Recognition: A Technique Based on Red, Green, Blue Plus Depth Cameras","authors":"Jing Qi, Li Ma, Yushu Yu","doi":"10.1109/mra.2024.3415004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/mra.2024.3415004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55019,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine","volume":"81 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141505382","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}