What is Coordinated Exploration?
What is coordinated exploration? In the context of Shield AI, coordinated exploration corresponds to the deployment of multi-robot systems in order to explore an environment. These multi-robot systems collectively develop a structural model of that environment by moving through and navigating around it. Coordinated exploration refers to how the robots decide how to move through […]
Inside Hardware: Thermal System Design
Why do we design thermal systems? Often, when electronics are used they are not 100% efficient. Inefficiency translates to a non-trivial amount of energy released as heat. Thermal systems are often required to properly manage that heat. Why is it important? Without thermal management, eventually an engineered system won’t work anymore; it will overheat. This […]
How Do Robots Learn Through Exploration?
How does learning appear within the context of coordinated exploration? Within the context of exploration, learning emerges the more the system operates. The system improves with operation because the more that it operates, the more experience it acquires about how the actions it takes given the appearance and nature of the environment will impact the […]
Inside Hardware: Designing a Circuit Board
Why are circuit boards important? At the simplest level, circuit boards are the glue that integrates all of the higher-level system features together. Where do you start when designing a circuit board? There is a lot that goes into circuit boards — power regulation, filtering, different communications, buses, and chips — but before you get […]
How do Robots Communicate with Each Other?
A conversation with Professor Nathan Michael, Shield AI’s Chief Technology Officer. This is a continuation of our conversation about Trust and Robotic Systems. In terms of multi-robot systems, how do we think about coordination in terms of how robots communicate with each other and learn together? When we talk about multi-robot exploration and teams of […]
What is Multi-Robot Exploration?
A conversation with Professor Nathan Michael, Shield AI’s Chief Technology Officer. This is a continuation of our conversation about Trust and Robotic Systems. What do we mean by multi-robot exploration? Exploration for a single robot system in our context considers uncertainty reduction in an unknown environment performed by a single agent. It involves the system […]
How Artificial Intelligence Manifests Through Exploration
A conversation with Professor Nathan Michael, Shield AI’s Chief Technology Officer. This is a continuation of our conversation about Trust and Robotic Systems. In reference to robotic systems, what do we mean by exploration? Typically, when we talk about exploration with an autonomous robotic system for the types of scenarios that we consider, we’re talking […]
Designing UX to Consider Cognitive Load
In User Experience, our goal is to constantly improve our customer’s interaction with our product. We iterate on our feature designs based on insights and feedback from user experience evaluations. This cyclical process brings us ever closer to a product that is intuitive, useful, and delightful for its users. Many qualities contribute to creating a […]
Shield AI Fundamentals: On Resilient Intelligence
A conversation with Professor Nathan Michael, Shield AI’s Chief Technology Officer. This is a continuation of our conversation about Trust and Robotic Systems. You are the director of the Resilient Intelligence Lab (RISLab) at Carnegie Mellon University. When choosing to name the lab, why did you use the term resilient? The goal of the research […]
The Relationship Between Intelligence & Learning
A conversation with Professor Nathan Michael, Shield AI’s Chief Technology Officer. This is a continuation of our conversation about Trust and Robotic Systems. How do you define intelligence in the context of robotic systems? Within the context of organic systems — humans, animals, plants — there are more formal definitions of what we mean by […]
