Calendar11 July 2023

Publication: Building Trustworthiness by Minimizing the Sim-to-Real Gap in Fault Detection for Robot Swarms Publication: Building Trustworthiness by Minimizing the Sim-to-Real Gap in Fault Detection for Robot Swarms

As robot swarm applications move to the real-world, ensuring the safety of such systems will be critical for trust and adoption. Fault detection is an essential component in systems which require a level of safety.

Previous work from EMERGE partners from the University of Bristol has identified metrics with high discriminatory power between faulty and normal states of a robot in the swarm. The method for identifying such metrics has been implemented in simulation.

In this work, they implement metric extraction in a real-world environment and evaluate whether the extracted metrics can overcome the “sim-to-real gap” - in other words how well it transfers from simulation to a real-world setting.

Read the paper in the link below.