TY - GEN
T1 - Abstract Hardware Grounding Towards the Automated Design of Automation Systems
AU - Shi, Yu Zhe
AU - Xu, Qiao
AU - Meng, Fanxu
AU - Ruan, Lecheng
AU - Wang, Qining
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2025.
PY - 2025
Y1 - 2025
N2 - Crafting automation systems tailored for specific domains requires aligning the space of human experts’ semantics with the space of robot executable actions, and scheduling the required resources and system layout accordingly. Regrettably, there are three major gaps, fine-grained domain-specific knowledge injection, heterogeneity between human knowledge and robot instructions, and diversity of users’ preferences, resulting automation system design a case-by-case and labour-intensive effort, thus hindering the democratization of automation. We refer to this challenging alignment as the abstract hardware grounding problem, where we firstly regard the procedural operations in humans’ semantics space as the abstraction of hardware requirements, then we ground such abstractions to instantiated hardware devices, subject to constraints and preferences in the real world—optimizing this problem is essentially standardizing and automating the design of automation systems. On this basis, we develop an automated design framework in a hybrid data-driven and principle-derived fashion. Results on designing self-driving laboratories for enhancing experiment-driven scientific discovery suggest our framework’s potential to produce compact systems that fully satisfy domain-specific and user-customized requirements with no redundancy.
AB - Crafting automation systems tailored for specific domains requires aligning the space of human experts’ semantics with the space of robot executable actions, and scheduling the required resources and system layout accordingly. Regrettably, there are three major gaps, fine-grained domain-specific knowledge injection, heterogeneity between human knowledge and robot instructions, and diversity of users’ preferences, resulting automation system design a case-by-case and labour-intensive effort, thus hindering the democratization of automation. We refer to this challenging alignment as the abstract hardware grounding problem, where we firstly regard the procedural operations in humans’ semantics space as the abstraction of hardware requirements, then we ground such abstractions to instantiated hardware devices, subject to constraints and preferences in the real world—optimizing this problem is essentially standardizing and automating the design of automation systems. On this basis, we develop an automated design framework in a hybrid data-driven and principle-derived fashion. Results on designing self-driving laboratories for enhancing experiment-driven scientific discovery suggest our framework’s potential to produce compact systems that fully satisfy domain-specific and user-customized requirements with no redundancy.
KW - Automated Design
KW - Domain Engineering
KW - Domain-Specific Language
KW - Requirement-based Trade-off
KW - Robot Hardware Abstraction
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85218454686
U2 - 10.1007/978-981-96-0780-8_9
DO - 10.1007/978-981-96-0780-8_9
M3 - 会议稿件
AN - SCOPUS:85218454686
SN - 9789819607792
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 117
EP - 132
BT - Intelligent Robotics and Applications - 17th International Conference, ICIRA 2024, Proceedings
A2 - Lan, Xuguang
A2 - Mei, Xuesong
A2 - Jiang, Caigui
A2 - Zhao, Fei
A2 - Tian, Zhiqiang
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
T2 - 17th International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications, ICIRA 2024
Y2 - 31 July 2024 through 2 August 2024
ER -