智能规划识别及其应用的研究

智能规划识别已经被广泛地用于自然语言理解、知识推理、情景演算等计算机系统的许多方面。文章介绍了国内外学者的相关研究,包括规划识别研究的历史与现状、问题与展望。并介绍了规划识别的各种方法及规划识别的应用。     

深度学习在智能机器人中的应用研究综述

机器人发展的趋势是人工智能化,深度学习是智能机器人的前沿技术,也是机器学习领域的新课题。深度学习技术被广泛运用于农业、工业、军事、航空等领域,与机器人的有机结合能设计出具有高工作效率、高实时性、高精确度的智能机器人。为了增强智能机器人在各方面的能力,使其更智能化,介绍了深度学习与机器人有关的研究项目与深度学习在机器人中的各种应用,包括室内和室外的场景识别、机器人的工业服务和家庭服务以及多机器人协作等。最后,对深度学习在智能机器人中应用的未来发展、可能面临的机遇和挑战等进行了讨论。     

The strategic impacts of Intelligent Automation for knowledge and service work: An interdisciplinary review

A significant recent technological development concerns the automation of knowledge and service work as a result of advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its sub-fields. We use the term Intelligent Automation to describe this phenomenon. This development presents organisations with a new strategic opportunity to increase business value. However, academic research contributions that examine these developments are spread across a wide range of scholarly disciplines resulting in a lack of consensus regarding key findings and implications. We conduct the first interdisciplinary literature review that systematically characterises the intellectual state and development of Intelligent Automation technologies in the knowledge and service sectors. Based on this review, we provide three significant contributions. First, we conceptualise Intelligent Automation and its associated technologies. Second, we provide a business value-based model of Intelligent Automation for knowledge and service work and identify twelve research gaps that hinder a complete understanding of the business value realisation process. Third, we provide a research agenda to address these gaps.     

智能车技术探讨

近年来,环境污染、交通安全及拥堵等严峻的问题困扰着整个世界。智能汽车的出现是为了建立一种新的交通范例,以便在很大程度上降低驾驶人员的劳动强度,避免汽车碰撞和减轻交通拥堵等。因而,发展新一代的智能汽车就成为了世界主要国家的发展战略目标。提出智能汽车的新定义:以自身装备动力驱动的智能信息系统管控的车辆。它具有5大基本功能特征,即车车交互、车人交互、车路交互、车网交互和绿色节能。车、人、路、网4个交互规定了智能汽车和周边环境之间的协作关系,而绿色节能则关注于清洁节约的能源管理系统。同时,讨论分析了支撑智能汽车发展所需要的新理论和新技术。最后,介绍了在缩微环境下进行的智能车研究和实践,并对未来智能汽车产业的发展方向做出展望。     

CaRINA Intelligent Robotic Car: Architectural design and applications

This paper presents the development of two outdoor intelligent vehicles platforms named CaRINA I and CaRINA II, their system architecture, simulation tools, and control modules. It also describes the development of the intelligent control system modules allowing the mobile robots and vehicles to navigate autonomously in controlled urban environments. Research work has been carried out on tele-operation, driver assistance systems, and autonomous navigation using the vehicles as platforms to experiments and validation. Our robotic platforms include mechanical adaptations and the development of an embedded software architecture. This paper addresses the design, sensing, decision making, and acting infrastructure and several experimental tests that have been carried out to evaluate both platforms and proposed algorithms. The main contributions of this work is the proposed architecture, that is modular and flexible, allowing it to be instantiated into different robotic platforms and applications. The communication and security aspects are also investigated.     

智能控制：从学习控制到平行控制

20世纪60年代,学习控制开启了人类探究复杂系统控制的新途径,基于人工智能技术的智能控制随之兴起.本文以智能控制为主线,阐述其由学习控制向平行控制发展的历程.本文首先介绍学习控制的基本思想,描述了智能机器的架构设计与运行机理.随着信息科技的进步,基于数据的计算智能方法随之出现.对此,本文进一步简述了基于计算智能的学习控制方法,并以自适应动态规划方法为切入点分析非线性动态系统自学习优化问题的求解过程.最后,针对工程复杂性与社会复杂性互相耦合的复杂系统控制问题,阐述了基于平行控制的学习与优化方法求解思路,分析其在求解复杂系统优化控制问题方面的优势.智能控制思想经历了学习控制、计算智能控制到平行控制的演化过程,可以看出平行控制是实现复杂系统知识自动化的有效方法.     

A systematic literature review on intelligent automation: Aligning concepts from theory,practice, and future perspectives

With the recent developments in robotic process automation (RPA) and artificial intelligence (AI), academics and industrial practitioners are now pursuing robust and adaptive decision making (DM) in real-life engineering applications and automated business workflows and processes to accommodate context awareness, adaptation to environment and customisation. The emerging research via RPA, AI and soft computing offers sophisticated decision analysis methods, data-driven DM and scenario analysis with regard to the consideration of decision choices and provides benefits in numerous engineering applications. The emerging intelligent automation (IA) – the combination of RPA, AI and soft computing – can further transcend traditional DM to achieve unprecedented levels of operational efficiency, decision quality and system reliability. RPA allows an intelligent agent to eliminate operational errors and mimic manual routine decisions, including rule-based, well-structured and repetitive decisions involving enormous data, in a digital system, while AI has the cognitive capabilities to emulate the actions of human behaviour and process unstructured data via machine learning, natural language processing and image processing. Insights from IA drive new opportunities in providing automated DM processes, fault diagnosis, knowledge elicitation and solutions under complex decision environments with the presence of context-aware data, uncertainty and customer preferences. This sophisticated review attempts to deliver the relevant research directions and applications from the selected literature to the readers and address the key contributions of the selected literature, IA’s benefits, implementation considerations, challenges and potential IA applications to foster the relevant research development in the domain.     

控讨基于教学过程的ITS系统模型

计算机智能导师系统（ＩＴＳ）,是智能化教学的一个分支。围绕教师在常规教学过程中所起的作用,分析研究了教师在教学的各个阶段中所承担的角色和完成的工作,并根据教学过程的动态特性,提出了一个基于教学过程的ＩＴＳ模型。还针对ＩＴＳ模型中的学科知识库、学生模型和教学策略推理机的实现方法给出了描述。     

Intelligent compilation of patent summaries using machine learning and natural language processing techniques

Patents are a type of intellectual property with ownership and monopolistic rights that are publicly accessible published documents, often with illustrations, registered by governments and international organizations. The registration allows people familiar with the domain to understand how to re-create the new and useful invention but restricts the manufacturing unless the owner licenses or enters into a legal agreement to sell ownership of the patent. Patents reward the costly research and development efforts of inventors while spreading new knowledge and accelerating innovation. This research uses artificial intelligence natural language processing, deep learning techniques and machine learning algorithms to extract the essential knowledge of patent documents within a given domain as a means to evaluate their worth and technical advantage. Manual patent abstraction is a time consuming, labor intensive, and subjective process which becomes cost and outcome ineffective as the size of the patent knowledge domain increases. This research develops an intelligent patent summarization methodology using artificial intelligence machine learning approaches to allow patent domains of extremely large sizes to be effectively and objectively summarized, especially for cases where the cost and time requirements of manual summarization is infeasible. The system learns to automatically summarize patent documents with natural language texts for any given technical domain. The machine learning solution identifies technical key terminologies (words, phrases, and sentences) in the context of the semantic relationships among training patents and corresponding summaries as the core of the summarization system. To ensure the high performance of the proposed methodology, ROUGE metrics are used to evaluate precision, recall, accuracy, and consistency of knowledge generated by the summarization system. The Smart machinery technologies domain, under the sub-domains of control intelligence, sensor intelligence and intelligent decision-making provide the case studies for the patent summarization system training. The cases use 1708 training pairs of patents and summaries while testing uses 30 randomly selected patents. The case implementation and verification have shown the summary reports achieve 90% and 84% average precision and recall ratios respectively.     

Artificial Intelligence Applications in the Development of Autonomous Vehicles: A Survey

The advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) has truly stimulated the development and deployment of autonomous vehicles (AVs) in the transportation industry. Fueled by big data from various sensing devices and advanced computing resources, AI has become an essential component of AVs for perceiving the surrounding environment and making appropriate decision in motion. To achieve goal of full automation (i.e., self-driving), it is important to know how AI works in AV systems. Existing research have made great efforts in investigating different aspects of applying AI in AV development. However, few studies have offered the research community a thorough examination of current practices in implementing AI in AVs. Thus, this paper aims to shorten the gap by providing a comprehensive survey of key studies in this research avenue. Specifically, it intends to analyze their use of AIs in supporting the primary applications in AVs: 1) perception; 2) localization and mapping; and 3) decision making. It investigates the current practices to understand how AI can be used and what are the challenges and issues associated with their implementation. Based on the exploration of current practices and technology advances, this paper further provides insights into potential opportunities regarding the use of AI in conjunction with other emerging technologies: 1) high definition maps, big data, and high performance computing; 2) augmented reality (AR)/virtual reality (VR) enhanced simulation platform; and 3) 5G communication for connected AVs. This paper is expected to offer a quick reference for researchers interested in understanding the use of AI in AV research.      

Al in computer games: Survey and perspectives

Computer games have traditionally implemented empirical solutions to many Al problems and are now turning to more traditional Al algorithms. After introducing the role of Al in gameplay, we review the main techniques used in current computer games such as Finite-State Transition Networks, rule-based systems and search algorithms. We describe the implementation of Al in several commercial computer games, as well as academic research in Al targeting computer games applications. We conclude this review by discussing future trends and proposing research directions.     

强化学习可解释性基础问题探索和方法综述

强化学习是一种从试错过程中发现最优行为策略的技术,已经成为解决环境交互问题的通用方法.然而,作为一类机器学习算法,强化学习也面临着机器学习领域的公共难题,即难以被人理解.缺乏可解释性限制了强化学习在安全敏感领域中的应用,如医疗、驾驶等,并导致强化学习在环境仿真、任务泛化等问题中缺乏普遍适用的解决方案.为了克服强化学习的这一弱点,涌现了大量强化学习可解释性(explainable reinforcement learning,XRL)的研究.然而,学术界对XRL尚缺乏一致认识.因此,探索XRL的基础性问题,并对现有工作进行综述.具体而言,首先探讨父问题——人工智能可解释性,对人工智能可解释性的已有定义进行了汇总;其次,构建一套可解释性领域的理论体系,从而描述XRL与人工智能可解释性的共同问题,包括界定智能算法和机械算法、定义解释的含义、讨论影响可解释性的因素、划分解释的直观性;然后,根据强化学习本身的特征,定义XRL的3个独有问题,即环境解释、任务解释、策略解释;之后,对现有方法进行系统地归类,并对XRL的最新进展进行综述;最后,展望XRL领域的潜在研究方向.     

Intelligent systems in the automotive industry: applications and trends

There is a common misconception that the automobile industry is slow to adapt new technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI) and soft computing. The reality is that many new technologies are deployed and brought to the public through the vehicles that they drive. This paper provides an overview and a sampling of many of the ways that the automotive industry has utilized AI, soft computing and other intelligent system technologies in such diverse domains like manufacturing, diagnostics, on-board systems, warranty analysis and design. Oleg Gusikhin received the Ph.D. degree from St. Petersburg Institute of Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the M.B.A. degree from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. Since 1993, he has been with the Ford Motor Company, where he is a Technical Leader at the Ford Manufacturing and Vehicle Design Research Laboratory, and is engaged in different functional areas including information technology, advanced electronics manufacturing, and research and advanced engineering. He has also been involved in the design and implementation of intelligent control applications for manufacturing and vehicle systems. He is the recipient of the 2004 Henry Ford Technology Award. He holds two U.S. patents and has published over 30 articles in refereed journals and conference proceedings. He is an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Flexible Manufacturing Systems. He is also a Certified Fellow of the American Production and Inventory Control Society and a member of IEEE and SME. Nestor Rychtyckyj received the Ph.D. degree in computer science from Wayne State University, Detroit, MI. He is a technical expert in Artificial Intelligence at Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, MI, in Advanced and Manufacturing Engineering Systems. His current research interests include the application of knowledge-based systems for vehicle assembly process planning and scheduling. Currently, his responsibilities include the development of automotive ontologies, intelligent manufacturing systems, controlled languages, machine translation and corporate terminology management. He has published more than 30 papers in referred journals and conference proceedings. He is a member of AAAI, ACM and the IEEE Computer Society. Dimitar P. Filev received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Czech Technical University, Prague, in 1979. He is a Senior Technical Leader, Intelligent Control and Information Systems with Ford Research and Advanced Engineering specializing in industrial intelligent systems and technologies for control, diagnostics and decision making. He is conducting research in systems theory and applications, modeling of complex systems, intelligent modeling and control, and has published 3 books and over 160 articles in refereed journals and conference proceedings. He holds 14 granted U.S. patents and numerous foreign patents in the area of industrial intelligent systems He is the recipient of the 1995 Award for Excellence of MCB University Press. He was awarded the Henry Ford Technology Award four times for development and implementation of advanced intelligent control technologies. He is an Associate Editor of International Journal of General Systems and International Journal of Approximate Reasoning. He is a member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society and President of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society (NAFIPS).     

Advancing artificial intelligence research and dissemination through conference series: Benchmark,scientific impact and the MICAI experience

This article presents an overview, analysis and benchmark of the best-known artificial intelligence (AI) conferences, including the Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (MICAI) conference series, and describes how MICAI has contributed to both the growth of artificial intelligence (AI) research in Mexico and the advancement of AI research worldwide. Among the prestigious AI conferences examined are the IJCAI, AAAI, ECAI, IBERAMIA, AAJCAI and PRICAI. Features analyzed include number of papers, acceptance rate and the h index as a measure of the scientific impact. The MICAI has been held in Mexico since 2000, when the National Meeting on AI, held by the Mexican Society for Artificial Intelligence (SMIA) since 1983, and the International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence (ISAI), organized by Tecnológico de Monterrey (ITESM) since 1988, merged into a single conference. Conference trends and future developments are also explained.     

Shifting ML value creation mechanisms: A process model of ML value creation

Advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are rapidly changing the competitive landscape. In the search for an appropriate strategic response, firms are currently engaging in a large variety of AI projects. However, recent studies suggest that many companies are falling short in creating tangible business value through AI. As the current scientific body of knowledge lacks empirically-grounded research studies for explaining this phenomenon, we conducted an exploratory interview study focusing on 56 applications of machine learning (ML) in 29 different companies. Through an inductive qualitative analysis, we uncover three broad types and five subtypes of ML value creation mechanisms, identify necessary but not sufficient conditions for successfully leveraging them, and observe that organizations, in their efforts to create value, dynamically shift from one ML value creation mechanism to another by reconfiguring their ML applications (i.e., the shifting practice). We synthesize these findings into a process model of ML value creation, which illustrates how organizations engage in (resource) orchestration by shifting between ML value creation mechanisms as their capabilities evolve and business conditions change. Our model provides an alternative explanation for the current high failure rate of ML projects.     

Integrated operation planning: Intelligent system approach for HVAC processes

This paper describes the construction of an Intelligent System for Operation Planning (ISOP) in heating, ventilating, and air conditioning (HVAC) processes. The system contains important expertise, qualitative reasoning, and quantitative computation. It is used to assist or train operators to achieve better operation in HVAC systems. Expertise about operation planning is expressed as air enthalpy, and moisture conditions and air supply are considered as dynamic parameters. Therefore, it provides a real-time integrated operation planning method in HVAC processes. It offers better energy conservation, comfort and indoor air quality than other methods being currently used. ISOP consists of two levels of frames. The first level classifies HVAC systems by qualitatively reasoning the system structure information, and activates the subframe. In the second level, 16 frames that correspond to the HVAC system structure, accomplish indoor comfort setting, supply air parameter estimations, air enthalpy, and misture evaluation, and then recommend optimal operation conditions. An integrated distributed intelligent system framework is introduced to integrate qualitative reasoning and quantitative computation.     

A survey on GANs for computer vision: Recent research,analysis and taxonomy

In the last few years, there have been several revolutions in the field of deep learning, mainly headlined by the large impact of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). GANs not only provide an unique architecture when defining their models, but also generate incredible results which have had a direct impact on society. Due to the significant improvements and new areas of research that GANs have brought, the community is constantly coming up with new researches that make it almost impossible to keep up with the times. Our survey aims to provide a general overview of GANs, showing the latest architectures, optimizations of the loss functions, validation metrics and application areas of the most widely recognized variants. The efficiency of the different variants of the model architecture will be evaluated, as well as showing the best application area; as a vital part of the process, the different metrics for evaluating the performance of GANs and the frequently used loss functions will be analyzed. The final objective of this survey is to provide a summary of the evolution and performance of the GANs which are having better results to guide future researchers in the field.     

Applications of machine learning to BIM: A systematic literature review

As Building Information Modeling (BIM) workflows are becoming very relevant for the different stages of the project’s lifecycle, more data is produced and managed across it. The information and data accumulated in BIM-based projects present an opportunity for analysis and extraction of project knowledge from the inception to the operation phase. In other industries, Machine Learning (ML) has been demonstrated to be an effective approach to automate processes and extract useful insights from different types and sources of data. The rapid development of ML applications, the growing generation of BIM-related data in projects, and the different needs for use of this data present serious challenges to adopt and effectively apply ML techniques to BIM-based projects in the Architecture, Engineering, Construction and Operations (AECO) industry. While research on the use of BIM data through ML has increased in the past decade, it is still in a nascent stage. In order to asses where the industry stands today, this paper carries out a systematic literature review (SLR) identifying and summarizing common emerging areas of application and utilization of ML within the context of BIM-generated data. Moreover, the paper identifies research gaps and trends. Based on the observed limitations, prominent future research directions are suggested, focusing on information architecture and data, applications scalability, and human information interactions.     

Connecting the Dots in Self-Supervised Learning: A Brief Survey for Beginners

The artificial intelligence (AI) community has recently made tremendous progress in developing self-supervised learning (SSL) algorithms that can learn high-quality data representations from massive amounts of unlabeled data. These methods brought great results even to the fields outside of AI. Due to the joint efforts of researchers in various areas, new SSL methods come out daily. However, such a sheer number of publications make it difficult for beginners to see clearly how the subject progresses. This survey bridges this gap by carefully selecting a small portion of papers that we believe are milestones or essential work. We see these researches as the "dots" of SSL and connect them through how they evolve. Hopefully, by viewing the connections of these dots, readers will have a high-level picture of the development of SSL across multiple disciplines including natural language processing, computer vision, graph learning, audio processing, and protein learning.     

Orientation and Decision-Making for Soccer Based on Sports Analytics and AI:A Systematic Review

Due to ever-growing soccer data collection approaches and progressing artificial intelligence(AI) methods, soccer analysis, evaluation, and decision-making have received increasing interest from not only the professional sports analytics realm but also the academic AI research community. AI brings gamechanging approaches for soccer analytics where soccer has been a typical benchmark for AI research. The combination has been an emerging topic. In this paper, soccer match analytics are taken as a ...