Mav Home An Intelligent Home Environment Computer Science
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Mav. Home: An Intelligent Home Environment Computer Science and Engineering Department The University of Texas at Arlington
Motivations �Unified project incorporating varied AI techniques, cross disciplinary with mobile computing, databases, multimedia, and others �High visibility �Possible commercial implications
Smart House Automated blinds Door/lock controllers, Face recognition, Surveillance system Climate control appliances Intelligent automated door entry Remote site monitoring control Assistance for and disabilities Robot vacuum cleaner Robot lawnmower Intelligent Entertainment Smart sprinklers Lighting control
UTA Mav. Home Capabilities �UTA Project Unique �Focus on entire home �House perceives and acts �Sensors �Controllers for devices �Connections to the mobile user and Internet �House optimizes goal function �Maximize inhabitant comfort �Minimize cost �Maximize user productivity �Maximize security
Smart Home - An Adaptive Environment �Smart Home is a home environment that adapts to the inhabitants �It has to sense the state of the home and the presence of people �It has to predict their behavior �It has to make decisions in order to automate the home
Mav. Home Architecture Machine Learning
UTA Mav. Home Components � Decision Layer � Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning � Information Layer � Reactive / Proactive Information Repository � Predicting inhabitant and house behaviors � Mobility prediction � Communication Layer � Intelligent routing � Supporting location-aware / context-aware services � Specialized Agents � Smart distributed sensor network � Personal service robots � Multimedia agent
REU Summer Projects � Interfaces for Automatic Health Monitoring � Acquisition of TV Viewing Preferences from Closed Captioning � Interface and Visualization of Home Performance Measures � Interfaces and Control of Virtual Appliances � Optimized Human Interfaces for Intelligent Environments � Anomaly Detection and Identification in Smart Homes � Voice over IP through Robotic Assistants � 3 -D Distributed Computer Modeling for Home Simulation
REU Summer Projects � Integrated Automatic Entry System using Face, Voice, and Fingerprint Recognition � In-Door Localization Using Wireless Signals � Robot Vision and Locomotion for AIBO dog � Mobile Robot Control
Additional Information � Detailed Mav. Home description: http: //ranger. uta. edu/smarthome � REU class materials: http: //ranger. uta. edu/˜reu
