Publications related to Task management

Learning Task Priorities from Demonstrations

As humanoid robots become increasingly popular, learning and control algorithms must take into account the new constraints and challenges inherent to these platforms, if we aim to fully exploit their potential. One of the most prominent of such aspects is ...

2019

UAV-Based Situational Awareness System Using Deep Learning

Wenlong Deng

Situational awareness by Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) is important for many applications such as surveillance, search and rescue, and disaster response. In those applications, detecting and locating people and recognizing their actions in near real-time ...

2019

How to quantify student's regularity?

Pierre Dillenbourg, Kshitij Sharma, Lukasz Kidzinski, Mina Shirvani Boroujeni, Lorenzo Lucignano

Studies carried out in classroom-based learning context, have consistently shown a positive relation between students' conscientiousness and their academic success. We hypothesize that time management and regularity are main constructing blocks of students ...

Springer2016

A Motion Capture Study to Measure the Feeling of Synchrony in Romantic Couples and in Professional Musicians

Pierre Magistretti, Delphine Preissmann, Joan Llobera Mahy

The feeling of synchrony is fundamental for most social activities and prosocial behaviors. However, little is known about the behavioral correlates of this feeling and its modulation by intergroup differences. We previously showed that the subjective feel ...

Frontiers Media2016

Intensive travel time: an obligation or a choice?

Stéphanie Vincent

This paper explores what prompts some individuals to spend a significant amount of time travelling. In the literature, travel time tends to be regarded as useless, unproductive time and, in some cases, as the worst time of the day. The actual behaviour of ...

Springer2016

Real-time full body motion imitation on the COMAN humanoid robot

Auke Ijspeert, Florin Dzeladini, Jesse van den Kieboom

On-line full body imitation with a humanoid robot standing on its own two feet requires simultaneously maintaining the balance and imitating the motion of the demonstrator. In this paper we present a method that allows real-time motion imitation while main ...

Cambridge Univ Press2015

Damage detection using data-driven methods applied to moving-load responses

Ian Smith

Developed economies depend on complex and extensive systems of infrastructure to maintain economic prosperity and quality of life. In recent years, the implementation of Structural health monitoring (SHM) systems on full-scale bridges has increased. The go ...

Elsevier2013

Mobile technology for awareness of time progression and its impact on meetings

Pierre Dillenbourg, Patrick Jermann, Nan Li, Himanshu Verma, Flaviu Roman

In this paper we present the motivation, design, development, and initial evaluation of a time awareness technology for meetings. As part of improving meetings effectiveness using technology, we focus on the meeting time management, and the method relies o ...

Ieee2013

Interaction Mirrors for Face-to-Face Meetings

Flaviu Roman

To be successful, a group requires an appropriate quality of coordination among its members. Even with the advent of remote communication, face-to-face meetings remain the context that offers the best interaction support to an effective collaboration. Howe ...

EPFL2013

Neural networks as mechanisms to regulate division of labor

Dario Floreano, Laurent Keller, Pawel Lichocki

In social insects, workers perform a multitude of tasks such as foraging, nest construction and brood rearing without central control of how work is allocated among individuals. It has been suggested that workers choose a task by responding to stimuli gath ...

2012

Measurement System Configuration for Damage Identification of Continuously Monitored Structures

Ian Smith, Nizar Bel Hadj Ali, Ngoc Thanh Trinh, Irwanda Laory

Measurement system configuration is an important task in structural health monitoring in that decisions influence the performance of monitoring systems. This task is generally performed using only engineering judgment and experience. Such approach may resu ...

American Society of Civil Engineers2012

Greedy Scheduling for Distributed Computing Clusters

Amin Karbasi, Milan Vojnovic

Allocating tasks to machines in computing clusters is described. In an embodiment a set of tasks associated with a job are received at a scheduler. In an embodiment an index can be computed for each combination of tasks and processors and stored in a looku ...

2011

Task-dependent influence of genetic architecture and mating frequency on division of labour in social insect societies

Dario Floreano, Laurent Keller

Division of labour is one of the most prominent features of social insects. The efficient allocation of individuals to different tasks requires dynamic adjustment in response to environmental perturbations. Theoretical models suggest that the colony-level ...

Springer Verlag2010

Analyse et exploitation des données de LIDAR aéroportés pour la caractérisation des milieux boisés de la Suisse

Gilles Gachet

Forest ecosystems show diverse and evolving structures. Accurate descriptions and a good knowledge of these environments are therefore a real challenge. Existing forest cover investigation methods are mostly laborious, hard to replicate and usually based o ...

EPFL2009

Exact quantification of the sub-optimality of uniprocessor fixed-priority pre- emptive scheduling

Thomas Rothvoss

This paper examines the relative effectiveness of fixed priority pre-emptive scheduling in a uniprocessor system, compared to an optimal algorithm. The quantitative metric used in this comparison is the processor speedup factor, equivalent to the factor by ...

2009

Turning Web 2.0 Social Software into Versatile Collaborative Learning Solutions

Denis Gillet, Christophe Salzmann, Sandy Ingram

In the framework of the European Integrated Project PALETTE, the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) is developing the eLogbook Web 2.0 social software. The purpose of eLogbook is to support tacit and explicit knowledge management in communitie ...

IEEE Computer Society Press2008