Project description
Initiative for R&I awareness in Serbia
Robotic space exploration is essential, as it enables the study of environments that are too dangerous and distant for human explorers. Unfortunately, these hazardous environments can cause serious hardware malfunctions that are irreparable, often resulting in the decommissioning of the robot. The ERC-funded RECOVER.ME project recognises this inefficiency and aims to develop a novel solution for metacognition-enabled failure handling that emulates human failure comprehension. This solution would allow robots to recover from severe but rectifiable hardware malfunctions without external assistance, leading to improved efficiency in future space exploration and infrastructure projects.
Objective
The aim of the RECOVER.ME project is to achieve human ingenuity in dealing with hardware faults in robotic space exploration. The hypothesis of the project is, that as robots acquire human-like metacognitive
awareness and metacognitive regulatory abilities, they will be enabled to recover from severe but rectifiable hardware malfunction all by themselves. This is of particular importance to planetary exploration, as
a hardware fault need not be the end of a mission. However, as of today, once a hardware malfunction occurs, the remote robot is typically taken out of operation and troubleshooting is done manually. In the
future, especially, when more complex robots are deployed to construct planetary infrastructure for crewed exploration, this can no longer be tolerated. Considering that a hardware fault may occur at any time, such
a situation can become safety-critical for the robot, the established infrastructure, and for astronauts in the vicinity of the robot.
To overcome this issue, RECOVER.ME proposes a novel approach for metacognition-enabled failure handling. Instead of relying on hard-coded recovery strategies by specifying how a robot has to react to a certain sub-system fault, the project aims to bootstrap failure handling as a property of the cognitive architecture of the robot itself. Metacognitive awareness is created through a novel knowledge representation that describes how hardware faults may impact robot capabilities. Metacognitive planning will yield contingency configurations employing abstract, affordance-based first order-logic planning for self-programming. To empower robots to monitor their own programming and evaluate the best strategy to react to arbitrary failure cases, generic limitation models will translate sub-symbolic fault information into semantically interpretable knowledge for metacognitive monitoring and metacognitive evaluation. This will provide robots with competent strategies to deal with faults in a similar way to humans.
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HORIZON.1.1 - European Research Council (ERC)
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(opens in new window) ERC-2023-STG
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51147 KOLN
Germany
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