2020/09/28
Keio University
Tokyo Automatic Machinery Works, Ltd.
The Seiichiro Katsura Laboratory at the Keio University Faculty of Science and Technology and Tokyo Automatic Machinery Works, Ltd. have successfully developed the foundational technology for "Bilateral AI," an artificial intelligence that can be designed interactively with humans. The conventional artificial intelligence technologies that are currently in widespread use have a problem in that it is difficult to interpret the physical meaning of their calculation processes, and the generated models become black boxes. "Bilateral AI" is a method that performs optimization using a group of elements prepared in advance by the designer, allowing models to be generated interactively while checking the AI's calculation results as needed. This interactive design enables effective collaboration between the "knowledge, experience, and skills" cultivated by humans and the "large-scale, high-speed computing power" of AI. This makes it possible to model human tacit knowledge, empirical rules, and expert skills in a form based on mathematical formulas with clear physical meaning, which can then be accumulated as know-how and skill databases. These databased know-how and skills can be utilized in the future to expand the operational scope of robots and industrial machinery, as well as for human resource development and training.
Going forward, we will introduce "Bilateral AI" to manufacturing sites, promote the intelligence and automation of factories, and aim to improve the sustainability of manufacturing.
These research results have been published in the *IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Industrial Electronics* and the *IEEJ Journal of Industry Applications*.
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