Rafael Afonso Rodrigues

• MSc
• Deep Learning Algorithms at NVIDIA

Modern Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) employ efficient neuron models to scale networks using Deep Learning techniques. However, as conventional artificial neural networks continue to outperform and outpace SNNs, research shifted towards efficiency, thereby overlooking the question of performance. This document explores the idea of finding a computa...

As the area of robotics achieves promising results, there is an increasing need to scale robotic software architectures towards real-world domains. Traditionally, robotic architectures are integrated using common frameworks, such as ROS. Therefore, systems with a uniform structure are produced, making it difficult to integrate third party contribut...

The multidisciplinarity of robotics creates a need for robust integration methodologies that can facilitate the adoption of state-of-the-art research components in an industrial application. Unfortunately, there are no clear, community accepted guidelines or standards that define the integration of such components in a single robotic system. In thi...

The multidisciplinarity of robotics creates a need for robust integration methodologies that can facilitate the adoption of state-of-the-art research components in an industrial application. Unfortunately, there are no clear, community-accepted guidelines or standards that define the integration of such components in a single robotic system. In thi...

Robotic applications and their capabilities have grown exponentially in recent years, but hardware limitations and environment restrictions still lead to unfulfilled requirements. As Cloud Computing matured, however, robotics began taking advantage of its elastic resources by offloading computation and data to the cloud, effectively creating what i...

In this study, we address the level of trust that a human being displays during an interaction with a robot under different circumstances. The influencing factors considered are the facial expressions of a robot during the interactions, as well as the ability of making small talk. To examine these influences, we ran an experiment in which a robot t...

Trust, is supposed as one of the important aspects in Social Robotics which targets the quality of interaction between humans and robots. In this study, we address the level of trust which a human being makes facing a robot under different circumstances. The influencing factors are considered as the facial expression of a robot during the interacti...