Daniel Medina

Francisco Pastor, Jorge García-González, Juan M. Gandarias et al.

Recent advances in the field of intelligent robotic manipulation pursue providing robotic hands with touch sensitivity. Haptic perception encompasses the sensing modalities encountered in the sense of touch (e.g., tactile and kinesthetic sensations). This letter focuses on multimodal object recognition and proposes analytical and data-driven methodologies to fuse tactile- and kinesthetic-based classification results. The procedure is as follows: a three-finger actuated gripper with an integrated high-resolution tactile sensor performs squeeze-and-release Exploratory Procedures (EPs). The tactile images and kinesthetic information acquired using angular sensors on the finger joints constitute the time-series datasets of interest. Each temporal dataset is fed to a Long Short-term Memory (LSTM) Neural Network, which is trained to classify in-hand objects. The LSTMs provide an estimation of the posterior probability of each object given the corresponding measurements, which after fusion allows to estimate the object through Bayesian and Neural inference approaches. An experiment with 36-classes is carried out to evaluate and compare the performance of the fused, tactile, and kinesthetic perception systems.The results show that the Bayesian-based classifiers improves capabilities for object recognition and outperforms the Neural-based approach.

Sandeep Kumar Singh, Jaya Shradha Fowdur, Jakob Gawlikowski et al.

Understanding and representing traffic patterns are key to detecting anomalous trajectories in the transportation domain. However, some trajectories can exhibit heterogeneous maneuvering characteristics despite confining to normal patterns. Thus, we propose a novel graph-based trajectory representation and association scheme for extraction and confederation of traffic movement patterns, such that data patterns and uncertainty can be learned by deep learning (DL) models. This paper proposes the usage of a recurrent neural network (RNN)-based evidential regression model, which can predict trajectory at future timesteps as well as estimate the data and model uncertainties associated, to detect maritime anomalous trajectories, such as unusual vessel maneuvering, using automatic identification system (AIS) data. Furthermore, we utilize evidential deep learning classifiers to detect unusual turns of vessels and the loss of transmitted signal using predicted class probabilities with associated uncertainties. Our experimental results suggest that the graphical representation of traffic patterns improves the ability of the DL models, such as evidential and Monte Carlo dropout, to learn the temporal-spatial correlation of data and associated uncertainties. Using different datasets and experiments, we demonstrate that the estimated prediction uncertainty yields fundamental information for the detection of traffic anomalies in the maritime and, possibly in other domains.

Alessio Rossi, Luca Pappalardo, Paolo Cintia et al.

Injuries have a great impact on professional soccer, due to their large influence on team performance and the considerable costs of rehabilitation for players. Existing studies in the literature provide just a preliminary understanding of which factors mostly affect injury risk, while an evaluation of the potential of statistical models in forecasting injuries is still missing. In this paper, we propose a multi-dimensional approach to injury forecasting in professional soccer that is based on GPS measurements and machine learning. By using GPS tracking technology, we collect data describing the training workload of players in a professional soccer club during a season. We then construct an injury forecaster and show that it is both accurate and interpretable by providing a set of case studies of interest to soccer practitioners. Our approach opens a novel perspective on injury prevention, providing a set of simple and practical rules for evaluating and interpreting the complex relations between injury risk and training performance in professional soccer.