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Role Playing Learning for Socially Concomitant Mobile Robot Navigation
In this paper, we present the Role Playing Learning (RPL) scheme for a mobile
robot to navigate socially with its human companion in populated environments.
Neural networks (NN) are constructed to parameterize a stochastic policy that
directly maps sensory data collected by the robot to its velocity outputs,
while respecting a set of social norms. An efficient simulative learning
environment is built with maps and pedestrians trajectories collected from a
number of real-world crowd data sets. In each learning iteration, a robot
equipped with the NN policy is created virtually in the learning environment to
play itself as a companied pedestrian and navigate towards a goal in a socially
concomitant manner. Thus, we call this process Role Playing Learning, which is
formulated under a reinforcement learning (RL) framework. The NN policy is
optimized end-to-end using Trust Region Policy Optimization (TRPO), with
consideration of the imperfectness of robot's sensor measurements. Simulative
and experimental results are provided to demonstrate the efficacy and
superiority of our method
Output feedback NN control for two classes of discrete-time systems with unknown control directions in a unified approach
10.1109/TNN.2008.2003290IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks19111873-1886ITNN
Effective Field Theories and Finite-temperature Properties of Zero-dimensional Superradiant Quantum Phase Transitions
The existence of zero-dimensional superradiant quantum phase transitions
seems inconsistent with conventional statistical physics, which has not been
explained so far. Here we demonstrate the corresponding effective field
theories and finite-temperature properties of light-matter interacting systems,
and show how this zero-dimensional quantum phase transition occurs. We first
focus on the Rabi model, which is a minimum model that hosts a superradiant
quantum phase transition. With the path integral method, we derive the
imaginary-time action of the photon degrees of freedom. We also define a
dynamical exponent as the rescaling between the temperature and the photon
frequency, and perform dimensional analysis to the effective action. Our
results show that the effective theory becomes a free scalar field or
-theory for a proper dynamical exponent, where a true second-order
quantum phase transition emerges. These results are also verified by numerical
simulations of imaginary-time correlation functions of the order parameter.
Furthermore, we also generalize this method to the Dicke model. Our results
make the zero-dimensional superradiant quantum phase transition compatible with
conventional statistical physics, and pave the way to understand it in the
perspective of effective field theories.Comment: 6+4 pages, 2 figure
Winning over Grassroots Consumers: An Empowerment Perspective of Yu’E Bao
Recent years have witnessed the great potential of technological innovations in helping developing economies tackle financial exclusion, a key obstacle in reducing poverty and accelerating economic growth. Yet, the way that technology innovations should be designed and utilized to deliver inclusive finance has remained obscure. In this study, we undertook an in-depth qualitative case study of Yu’E Bao, an online market fund, which has revolutionized the online finance sector in China. The incredible feat of Yu’E Bao has made financial institutions in China start focusing on potential cumulative wealth of the large population of financially underserved “grassroots consumers”. Drawing insights from empowerment theory, we explicate the mechanisms through which an IT-enabled innovation can successfully engage and leverage the financially underprivileged population to progress towards financial inclusion. Our findings underline important theoretical, economic and societal contributions, viz. exploitation of empowerment mechanisms, acknowledgment of grassroots’ economic potential, and IT-enabled financial inclusion
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