Transparent Intent for Explainable Shared Control in Assistive Robotics

Transparent Intent for Explainable Shared Control in Assistive Robotics

Mark Zolotas, Yiannis Demiris

Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Doctoral Consortium. Pages 5184-5185. https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2020/732

Robots supplied with the ability to infer human intent have many applications in assistive robotics. In these applications, robots rely on accurate models of human intent to administer appropriate assistance. However, the effectiveness of this assistance also heavily depends on whether the human can form accurate mental models of robot behaviour. The research problem is to therefore establish a transparent interaction, such that both the robot and human understand each other’s underlying "intent". We situate this problem in our Explainable Shared Control paradigm and present ongoing efforts to achieve transparency in human-robot collaboration.
Keywords:
Robotics: Human Robot Interaction
Humans and AI: Human-AI Collaboration