CSMARRT

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CSMARRT

• Group 10
• Cameron Kinard
• Leaundre Zeno
• Megan Wiedmaier
• Heath Carley

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What is CSMARRT?

• Creative, Self-Learning, Multi Sensory, Adaptive,
  Reconfigurable, Robotics Toolbox
• A new neural technology being developed for the
  US military but also shows promise for civilian
  application.
• The software is designed to be used in robots
  giving them the ability to learn, develop, and
  adapt.

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What is CSMARRT?

• Software allows robots to carry out physical
  operations and overcome challenges that arise
  during the operation.
• CSMARRT utilizes Creativity Machine, a special
  form of a neural network, as a basis for problem
  solving.

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Who developed it?

• CSMARRT is being developed for the Air Force
  Research Laboratory by a company called
  Imagination Engines Inc. (IEI).
• IEI is a small company, founded by Stephen
  Thaler, specializing in synthetic intelligence.
• The project is driven by software created by
  Thaler.

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What does it do?

• The Creativity Machine Paradigm gives CSMARRT the
  ability to generate new ideas from existing
  information.
• This type of software is a new evolution of
  neural network used to produce an output
  function.
• The software is written in a new form of XML
  called Robotic Markup Language (RML).
• This allows designers to tailor the robot to a
  specific purpose.

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Special Features

• Special to neural networks is the use of
  perturbations to agitate existing information and
  arrive at new ideas.
• Perturbations are the source or trigger that
  stimulates the Creative Machine into new ideas.
• To take those new ideas and compare it to
  existing knowledge so that the unusable
  information can be filtered out and discarded.

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More About Creativity Machines

• Creativity Machines learn from their mistakes and
  create and execute strategies to overcome these
  mistakes.
• The important issue as it applies to CSMARRT is
  that Creativity Machine neural networks are
  capable of generating solutions opposed to only
  recognizing patterns.

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What has it done?

• The project has already shown impressive results.
  The software has written music, discovered
  minerals, and designed soft drinks.
• In early testing, Thaler claims the software
  evaluates a situation and finds a quick solution
  to the task at hand.

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CSMARRT In Progress

• A test robot adopted a two-legged gait rising up
  on its hind legs so that it could move faster
  when necessary.
• In simulations the robots grouped together in
  order to overcome obstacles.
• They worked in teams to map their environment and
  strategically derived quick and effective ways to
  overcome these obstacles.

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Military Work

• The military hopes to use this problem solving
  software in robots that can carry out particular
  missions ranging from projected scenario results
  to long range tactical searches.
• The military wants to utilize the robots in
  missions similar to the operations in
  Afghanistan.

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Military Work

• They would be sent out to explore underground
  bunkers, map facilities, and identify what is in
  them.
• It will have the ability to eliminate human
  involvement in very dangerous search missions,
  thus saving lives.
• The robots would also be able to go into areas
  that a human could not.

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Military Work

• This innovative new technology will allow the
  military to do things with robots that could not
  previously be done.
• CSMARRT gives the robots the flexibility to enter
  an area and deal with unknown obstacles without
  human control.

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Are there any question?