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In the design of robot skills, the focus generally lies on increasing the flexibility and reliability of the robot execution process; however, typical skill representations are not designed for analysing execution failures if they occur or for explicitly learning from failures. In this paper, we describe a learning-based hybrid representation for skill parameterisation called an execution model, which considers execution failures to be a natural part of the execution process. We then (i) demonstrate how execution contexts can be included in execution models, (ii) introduce a technique for generalising models between object categories by combining generalisation attempts performed by a robot with knowledge about object similarities represented in an ontology, and (iii) describe a procedure that uses an execution model for identifying a likely hypothesis of a parameterisation failure. The feasibility of the proposed methods is evaluated in multiple experiments performed with a physical robot in the context of handle grasping, object grasping, and object pulling. The experimental results suggest that execution models contribute towards avoiding execution failures, but also represent a first step towards more introspective robots that are able to analyse some of their execution failures in an explicit manner.
Earth’s nearest candidate supermassive black hole lies at the centre of the Milky Way1. Its electromagnetic emission is thought to be powered by radiatively inefficient accretion of gas from its environment2, which is a standard mode of energy supply for most galactic nuclei. X-ray measurements have already resolved a tenuous hot gas component from which the black hole can be fed3. The magnetization of the gas, however, which is a crucial parameter determining the structure of the accretion flow, remains unknown. Strong magnetic fields can influence the dynamics of accretion, remove angular momentum from the infalling gas4, expel matter through relativistic jets5 and lead to synchrotron emission such as that previously observed6, 7, 8. Here we report multi-frequency radio measurements of a newly discovered pulsar close to the Galactic Centre9, 10, 11, 12 and show that the pulsar’s unusually large Faraday rotation (the rotation of the plane of polarization of the emission in the presence of an external magnetic field) indicates that there is a dynamically important magnetic field near the black hole. If this field is accreted down to the event horizon it provides enough magnetic flux to explain the observed emission—from radio to X-ray wavelengths—from the black hole.