Covy: An AI-powered Robot with a Compound Vision System for Detecting Breaches in Social Distancing

no code implementations • 14 Jul 2022 • Serge Saaybi, Amjad Yousef Majid, R Venkatesha Prasad, Anis Koubaa, Chris Verhoeven

This paper introduces a compound vision system that enables robots to localize people up to 15m away using a cheap camera.

Reinforcement Learning (RL)

Deep Reinforcement Learning Versus Evolution Strategies: A Comparative Survey

no code implementations • 28 Sep 2021 • Amjad Yousef Majid, Serge Saaybi, Tomas van Rietbergen, Vincent Francois-Lavet, R Venkatesha Prasad, Chris Verhoeven

Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) and Evolution Strategies (ESs) have surpassed human-level control in many sequential decision-making problems, yet many open challenges still exist.

Decision Making reinforcement-learning +1

Energy Efficient Data Recovery from Corrupted LoRa Frames

no code implementations • 19 Jul 2021 • Niloofar Yazdani, Nikolaos Kouvelas, R Venkatesha Prasad, Daniel E. Lucani

Furthermore, we evaluated ReDCoS on-field using LoRa SX1261 transceivers showing that it outperformed RS-coding by factor of at least 2x (and up to 6x) in terms of the decoding ratio while consuming 38. 5% less energy per correctly received transmission.