在粗糙的地形上的动态运动需要准确的脚部放置，避免碰撞以及系统的动态不足的计划。在存在不完美且常常不完整的感知信息的情况下，可靠地优化此类动作和互动是具有挑战性的。我们提出了一个完整的感知，计划和控制管道，可以实时优化机器人所有自由度的动作。为了减轻地形所带来的数值挑战，凸出不平等约束的顺序被提取为立足性可行性的局部近似值，并嵌入到在线模型预测控制器中。每个高程映射预先计算了步骤性分类，平面分割和签名的距离场，以最大程度地减少优化过程中的计算工作。多次射击，实时迭代和基于滤波器的线路搜索的组合用于可靠地以高速率解决该法式问题。我们在模拟中的间隙，斜率和踏上石头的情况下验证了所提出的方法，并在Anymal四倍的平台上进行实验，从而实现了最新的动态攀登。

通常，地形几何形状是非平滑的，非线性的，非凸的，如果通过以机器人为中心的视觉单元感知，则似乎部分被遮住且嘈杂。这项工作介绍了能够实时处理上述问题的完整控制管道。我们制定了一个轨迹优化问题，该问题可以在基本姿势和立足点上共同优化，但要遵守高度图。为了避免收敛到不良的本地Optima，我们部署了逐步的优化技术。我们嵌入了一个紧凑的接触式自由稳定性标准，该标准与非平板地面公式兼容。直接搭配用作转录方法，导致一个非线性优化问题，可以在少于十毫秒内在线解决。为了在存在外部干扰的情况下增加鲁棒性，我们用动量观察者关闭跟踪环。我们的实验证明了爬楼梯，踏上垫脚石上的楼梯，并利用各种动态步态在缝隙上。

The ability to generate dynamic walking in real-time for bipedal robots with input constraints and underactuation has the potential to enable locomotion in dynamic, complex and unstructured environments. Yet, the high-dimensional nature of bipedal robots has limited the use of full-order rigid body dynamics to gaits which are synthesized offline and then tracked online. In this work we develop an online nonlinear model predictive control approach that leverages the full-order dynamics to realize diverse walking behaviors. Additionally, this approach can be coupled with gaits synthesized offline via a desired reference to enable a shorter prediction horizon and rapid online re-planning, bridging the gap between online reactive control and offline gait planning. We demonstrate the proposed method, both with and without an offline gait, on the planar robot AMBER-3M in simulation and on hardware.

现代机器人系统具有卓越的移动性和机械技能，使其适合在现实世界场景中使用，其中需要与重物和精确的操纵能力进行互动。例如，具有高有效载荷容量的腿机器人可用于灾害场景，以清除危险物质或携带受伤的人。因此，可以开发能够使复杂机器人能够准确地执行运动和操作任务的规划算法。此外，需要在线适应机制，需要新的未知环境。在这项工作中，我们强加了模型预测控制（MPC）产生的最佳状态输入轨迹满足机器人系统自适应控制中的Lyapunov函数标准。因此，我们将控制Lyapunov函数（CLF）提供的稳定性保证以及MPC在统一的自适应框架中提供的最优性，在机器人与未知对象的交互过程中产生改进的性能。我们验证了携带未建模有效载荷和拉重盒子的四足机器人的仿真和硬件测试中提出的方法。

The broad usage of mobile devices nowadays, the sensitiveness of the information contained in them, and the shortcomings of current mobile user authentication methods are calling for novel, secure, and unobtrusive solutions to verify the users' identity. In this article, we propose TypeFormer, a novel Transformer architecture to model free-text keystroke dynamics performed on mobile devices for the purpose of user authentication. The proposed model consists in Temporal and Channel Modules enclosing two Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) recurrent layers, Gaussian Range Encoding (GRE), a multi-head Self-Attention mechanism, and a Block-Recurrent structure. Experimenting on one of the largest public databases to date, the Aalto mobile keystroke database, TypeFormer outperforms current state-of-the-art systems achieving Equal Error Rate (EER) values of 3.25% using only 5 enrolment sessions of 50 keystrokes each. In such way, we contribute to reducing the traditional performance gap of the challenging mobile free-text scenario with respect to its desktop and fixed-text counterparts. Additionally, we analyse the behaviour of the model with different experimental configurations such as the length of the keystroke sequences and the amount of enrolment sessions, showing margin for improvement with more enrolment data. Finally, a cross-database evaluation is carried out, demonstrating the robustness of the features extracted by TypeFormer in comparison with existing approaches.

The detection and prevention of illegal fishing is critical to maintaining a healthy and functional ecosystem. Recent research on ship detection in satellite imagery has focused exclusively on performance improvements, disregarding detection efficiency. However, the speed and compute cost of vessel detection are essential for a timely intervention to prevent illegal fishing. Therefore, we investigated optimization methods that lower detection time and cost with minimal performance loss. We trained an object detection model based on a convolutional neural network (CNN) using a dataset of satellite images. Then, we designed two efficiency optimizations that can be applied to the base CNN or any other base model. The optimizations consist of a fast, cheap classification model and a statistical algorithm. The integration of the optimizations with the object detection model leads to a trade-off between speed and performance. We studied the trade-off using metrics that give different weight to execution time and performance. We show that by using a classification model the average precision of the detection model can be approximated to 99.5% in 44% of the time or to 92.7% in 25% of the time.

A tractogram is a virtual representation of the brain white matter. It is composed of millions of virtual fibers, encoded as 3D polylines, which approximate the white matter axonal pathways. To date, tractograms are the most accurate white matter representation and thus are used for tasks like presurgical planning and investigations of neuroplasticity, brain disorders, or brain networks. However, it is a well-known issue that a large portion of tractogram fibers is not anatomically plausible and can be considered artifacts of the tracking procedure. With Verifyber, we tackle the problem of filtering out such non-plausible fibers using a novel fully-supervised learning approach. Differently from other approaches based on signal reconstruction and/or brain topology regularization, we guide our method with the existing anatomical knowledge of the white matter. Using tractograms annotated according to anatomical principles, we train our model, Verifyber, to classify fibers as either anatomically plausible or non-plausible. The proposed Verifyber model is an original Geometric Deep Learning method that can deal with variable size fibers, while being invariant to fiber orientation. Our model considers each fiber as a graph of points, and by learning features of the edges between consecutive points via the proposed sequence Edge Convolution, it can capture the underlying anatomical properties. The output filtering results highly accurate and robust across an extensive set of experiments, and fast; with a 12GB GPU, filtering a tractogram of 1M fibers requires less than a minute. Verifyber implementation and trained models are available at https://github.com/FBK-NILab/verifyber.

In recent years, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) related technology has expanded knowledge in the area, bringing to light new problems and challenges that require solutions. Furthermore, because the technology allows processes usually carried out by people to be automated, it is in great demand in industrial sectors. The automation of these vehicles has been addressed in the literature, applying different machine learning strategies. Reinforcement learning (RL) is an automation framework that is frequently used to train autonomous agents. RL is a machine learning paradigm wherein an agent interacts with an environment to solve a given task. However, learning autonomously can be time consuming, computationally expensive, and may not be practical in highly-complex scenarios. Interactive reinforcement learning allows an external trainer to provide advice to an agent while it is learning a task. In this study, we set out to teach an RL agent to control a drone using reward-shaping and policy-shaping techniques simultaneously. Two simulated scenarios were proposed for the training; one without obstacles and one with obstacles. We also studied the influence of each technique. The results show that an agent trained simultaneously with both techniques obtains a lower reward than an agent trained using only a policy-based approach. Nevertheless, the agent achieves lower execution times and less dispersion during training.

We present edBB-Demo, a demonstrator of an AI-powered research platform for student monitoring in remote education. The edBB platform aims to study the challenges associated to user recognition and behavior understanding in digital platforms. This platform has been developed for data collection, acquiring signals from a variety of sensors including keyboard, mouse, webcam, microphone, smartwatch, and an Electroencephalography band. The information captured from the sensors during the student sessions is modelled in a multimodal learning framework. The demonstrator includes: i) Biometric user authentication in an unsupervised environment; ii) Human action recognition based on remote video analysis; iii) Heart rate estimation from webcam video; and iv) Attention level estimation from facial expression analysis.

在许多现实世界和高影响力决策设置中，从分类过程中说明预测性不确定性的神经网络的概率预测至关重要。但是，实际上，大多数数据集经过非稳定神经网络的培训，默认情况下，这些神经网络不会捕获这种固有的不确定性。这个众所周知的问题导致了事后校准程序的开发，例如PLATT缩放（Logistic），等渗和β校准，这将得分转化为校准良好的经验概率。校准方法的合理替代方法是使用贝叶斯神经网络，该网络直接建模预测分布。尽管它们已应用于图像和文本数据集，但在表格和小型数据制度中的采用有限。在本文中，我们证明了与校准神经网络相比，贝叶斯神经网络在各种数据集中进行实验，从而产生竞争性能。