让机器人决策过程可解释,分层调用不同解释方法。
HEXAR: a Hierarchical Explainability Architecture for Robots
- 分层设计:模块化解释器由选择器统一调度。
- 180种场景测试中,定位错误原因准确率显著更高。
- 适合需要透明决策的医疗、家庭助手机器人场景。
随着机器人系统日益复杂,可解释性决策变得至关重要。现有方法通常仅关注单一模块,难以从高层行为角度进行查询,或采用整体式方案,未能利用机器人架构的模块化特性。本文提出HEXAR(面向机器人的分层可解释性架构),一种即插即用的分层解释框架。HEXAR包含针对不同机器人模块定制的专用解释器(如基于大模型推理、因果模型、特征重要性等技术),由解释选择器动态选取最适配当前问题的解释器。我们在TIAGo机器人执行家庭环境辅助任务的场景下实现并评估了HEXAR,对比了端到端与聚合基线方法,在180种场景-查询组合上进行测试。结果表明,HEXAR在根因识别、排除错误信息及运行效率方面均显著优于基线,为透明自主系统提供了有前景的方向。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
As robotic systems become increasingly complex, the need for explainable decision-making becomes critical. Existing explainability approaches in robotics typically either focus on individual modules, which can be difficult to query from the perspective of high-level behaviour, or employ monolithic approaches, which do not exploit the modularity of robotic architectures. We present HEXAR (Hierarchical EXplainability Architecture for Robots), a novel framework that provides a plug-in, hierarchical approach to generate explanations about robotic systems. HEXAR consists of specialised component explainers using diverse explanation techniques (e.g., LLM-based reasoning, causal models, feature importance, etc) tailored to specific robot modules, orchestrated by an explainer selector that chooses the most appropriate one for a given query. We implement and evaluate HEXAR on a TIAGo robot performing assistive tasks in a home environment, comparing it against end-to-end and aggregated baseline approaches across 180 scenario-query variations. We observe that HEXAR significantly outperforms baselines in root cause identification, incorrect information exclusion, and runtime, offering a promising direction for transparent autonomous systems.
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