Title
Hierarchical POMDP Framework for a Robot-Assisted ASD Diagnostic Protocol
Abstract
Since the diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) relies heavily on behavioral observations by experienced clinician, we seek to investigate whether parts of this job can be autonomously performed by a humanoid robot using only sensors available on-board. To that end, we developed a robot-assisted ASD diagnostic protocol. In this work we propose the Partially observable Markov decision process (POMDP) framework for such protocol which enables the robot to infer information about the state of the child based on observations of child's behavior. We extend our previous work by developing a protocol POMDP model which uses tasks of the protocol as actions. We devise a method to interface protocol and task models by using belief at the end of a task to generate observations for the protocol POMDP, resulting in a hierarchical POMDP framework. We evaluate our approach through an exploratory study with fifteen children (seven typically developing and eight with ASD).
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/HRI.2019.8673295
2019 14th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)
Keywords
Field
DocType
Task analysis,Protocols,Robot kinematics,Variable speed drives,Autism,Humanoid robots
Autism,Task analysis,Partially observable Markov decision process,Computer science,Robot kinematics,Human–computer interaction,Autism spectrum disorder,Robot,Exploratory research,Humanoid robot
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2167-2121
978-1-5386-8555-6
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Frano Petric184.69
Zdenko Kovacic25915.27