What am I allowed to do here?: Online Learning of Context-Specific Norms by Pepper

Social norms support coordination and cooperation in society. With social robots becoming increasingly involved in our society, they also need to follow the social norms of the society. This paper presents a computational framework for learning contexts and the social norms present in a context in an online manner on a robot. The paper utilizes a recent state-of-the-art approach for incremental learning and adapts it for online learning of scenes (contexts). The paper further utilizes Dempster-Schafer theory to model context-specific norms. After learning the scenes (contexts), we use active learning to learn related norms. We test our approach on the Pepper robot by taking it through different scene locations. Our results show that Pepper can learn different scenes and related norms simply by communicating with a human partner in an online manner.Comment: The final authenticated publication is available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-62056-1_1

The D-Grid Integration Project: How to Build a Grid for Different Communities

The Grid world is highly dynamic due to the appearance of new resources, easier access and new Grid applications. Moreover, an increasing number of scientific communities begins to realize that Grids will become an indispensable tool for modern science. However, the requirements of those communities often differ significantly from each other. Therefore, it is a particularly di±cult challenge to establish a national Grid infrastructure that serves as many communities as possible. To address this challenge, the German D-Grid has developed a concept that is based on development of independent Community Grids that are connected with a single integration project. Further, the process will involve several steps to consider dependencies between the various projects and their tasks. Presently, we are still at the beginning of the realization of a German Grid. Therefore in this paper, we first briefly explain this concept in this paper. Then we focus on the integration project and describe its tasks in more detail. This includes some first results and experiences that were achieved within the first year of the project. Finally, some plans for future steps are presented