Title
Toward Achieving Formal Guarantees For Human-Aware Controllers In Human-Robot Interactions
Abstract
With the primary objective of human-robot interaction being to support humans' goals, there exists a need to formally synthesize robot controllers that can provide the desired service. Synthesis techniques have the benefit of providing formal guarantees for specification satisfaction. There is potential to apply these techniques for devising robot controllers whose specifications are coupled with human needs. This paper explores the use of formal methods to construct human-aware robot controllers to support the productivity requirements of humans. We tackle these types of scenarios via human workload-informed models and reactive synthesis. This strategy allows us to synthesize controllers that fulfill formal specifications that are expressed as linear temporal logic formulas. We present a case study in which we reason about a work delivery and pickup task such that the robot increases worker productivity, but not stress induced by high work backlog. We demonstrate our controller using the Toyota HSR, a mobile manipulator robot. The results demonstrate the realization of a robust robot controller that is guaranteed to properly reason and react in collaborative tasks with human partners.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/IROS40897.2019.8968002
2019 IEEE/RSJ INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INTELLIGENT ROBOTS AND SYSTEMS (IROS)
Field
DocType
Volume
Control theory,Existential quantification,Linear temporal logic,Control engineering,Formal specification,Formal methods,Engineering,Robot,Human–robot interaction,Mobile manipulator
Journal
abs/1903.01350
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
2153-0858
0
0.34
References 
Authors
13
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Rachel Schlossman100.68
MinKyu Kim212.05
Ufuk Topcu31032115.78
Luis Sentis457459.74