Research Program 6 (R6)

Autonomous AI

Autonomous systems are increasingly reliant on AI methods. FCAI Research Program R6 Autonomous AI addresses the fundamental challenges of long-term autonomous operation, in particular, how learning and planning can be performed to ensure safe operation over long time horizons. The program aims to make Autonomous AIs data-efficient by actively collecting data while acting in the world. The main challenges include 1) long-term decision making; 2) safe learning during operation; and 3) reliable perception and navigation.

Examples of publications:

• Ali Ghadirzadeh, Petra Poklukar, Karol Arndt, Chelsea Finn, Ville Kyrki, Danica Kragic, Mårten Björkman. 2022. Training and evaluation of deep policies using reinforcement learning and generative models. Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR) 23:174.

• Adrien Corenflos, Nicolas Chopin, Simo Särkkä. 2022. De-Sequentialized Monte Carlo: a parallel-in-time particle smoother. Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR) 23, 1-39.

• Karol Arndt, Murtaza Hazara, Ali Ghadirzadeh, Ville Kyrki. 2020.  Meta Reinforcement Learning for Sim-to-real Domain Adaptation. Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA 2020.

• Pascal Klink, Carlo D'Eramo, Jan Peters, Joni Pajarinen. 2020. Self-paced deep reinforcement learning. Thirty-fourth Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 33.

Program poster (pdf)

Coordinating professor: Ville Kyrki – ville.kyrki at aalto.fi

People

The groups of following PIs take part in the Research Program Autonomous AI. If you would like to join this program, please contact the coordinating professor.

• Dominik Baumann, Aalto University

• Shankar Deka, Aalto University

• Keijo Heljanko, University of Helsinki

• Perttu Hämäläinen, Aalto University

• Alexander Ilin, Aalto University

• Juho Kannala, Aalto University

• Hannu Karvonen, VTT

• Samuel Kaski, Aalto University

• Juha Kortelainen, VTT

• Tomasz Kucner, Aalto University

• Matti Kutila, VTT

• Ville Kyrki, Aalto University – coordinating professor

• Harri Lähdesmäki, Aalto University

• Petteri Nurmi, University of Helsinki

• Joni Pajarinen, Aalto University

• Laura Ruotsalainen, University of Helsinki

• Arno Solin, Aalto University

• Simo Särkkä, Aalto University