TY - CHAP U1 - Konferenzveröffentlichung A1 - Küstenmacher, Anastassia A1 - Plöger, Paul G. A1 - Lakemeyer, Gerhard T1 - Improving Robustness of Task Execution Against External Faults Using Simulation Based Approach T2 - Feldman, Kalech et al. (Eds.): Proceedings of The 24th International Workshop on Principles of Diagnosis. DX’13. Jerusalem, October 1-4, 2013 N2 - Robots interacting in complex and cluttered environments may face unexpected situations referred to as external faults which prohibit the successful completion of their tasks. In order to function in a more robust manner, robots need to recognise these faults and learn how to deal with them in the future. We present a simulation-based technique to avoid external faults occurring during execusion releasing actions of a robot. Our technique utilizes simulation to generate a set of labeled examples which are used by a histogram algorithm to compute a safe region. A safe region consists of a set of releasing states of an object that correspond to successful performances of the action. This technique also suggests a general solution to avoid the occurrence of external faults for not only the current, observable object but also for any other object of the same shape but different size. Y1 - 2013 SP - 198 EP - 203 ER -