Federated learning from demonstration for active assistance to smart wheelchair users
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Accepted version
Author(s)
Casado, Fernando E
Demiris, Yiannis
Type
Conference Paper
Abstract
Learning from Demonstration (LfD) is a very appealing approach to empower robots with autonomy. Given some demonstrations provided by a human teacher, the robot can learn a policy to solve the task without explicit programming. A promising use case is to endow smart robotic wheelchairs with active assistance to navigation. By using LfD, it is possible to learn to infer short-term destinations anywhere, without the need of building a map of the environment beforehand. Nevertheless, it is difficult to generalize robot behaviors to environments other than those used for training. We believe that one possible solution is learning from crowds, involving a broad number of teachers (the end users themselves) who perform demonstrations in diverse and real environments. To this end, in this work we consider Federated Learning from Demonstration (FLfD), a distributed approach based on a Federated Learning architecture. Our proposal allows the training of a global deep neural network using sensitive local data (images and laser readings) with privacy guarantees. In our experiments we pose a scenario involving different clients working in heterogeneous domains. We show that the federated model is able to generalize and deal with non Independent and Identically Distributed (non-IID) data.
Date Issued
2022-12-26
Date Acceptance
2022-10-01
Citation
2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2022, pp.9326-9331
ISSN
2153-0858
Publisher
IEEE
Start Page
9326
End Page
9331
Journal / Book Title
2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
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Identifier
https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000909405301122&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=a2bf6146997ec60c407a63945d4e92bb
Source
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
Subjects
Automation & Control Systems
Computer Science
Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence
Engineering
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Robotics
Science & Technology
Technology
Publication Status
Published
Start Date
2022-10-23
Finish Date
2022-10-27
Coverage Spatial
Japan, Kyoto