Human-Robot Alignment through Interactivity and Interpretability: Don't Assume a ``Spherical Human''

Matthew Gombolay

Proceedings of the Thirty-Third International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Early Career. Pages 8523-8528.

https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2024/976

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Abstract

Interactive and interpretable robot learning can help to democratize robots, placing the power of assistive robotic systems in the hands of end-users. While machine learning-based approaches to robotics have achieved impressive results, robot learning is still a feat of costly engineering performed in controlled settings and relying upon impractical assumptions about humans. To achieve a vision in which robots can be integrated sustainably into our daily lives for robotic assistance, researchers must take a human-centered approach and develop novel approaches for human-robot alignment of robot values and behaviors. This paper amalgamates recent human factors insights and computational techniques that can support human-robot alignment through interactive and interpretable robot learning and teaming.

Keywords

  • Robotics: ROB: Human robot interaction
  • Machine Learning: ML: Explainable/Interpretable machine learning
  • Robotics: ROB: Learning in robotics
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