让机器人在出错时智能问人,减少用户负担同时提高恢复成功率。
A Human-in-the-Loop Confidence-Aware Failure Recovery Framework for Modular Robot Policies
- 根据模块不确定性与人类干预成本,动态决定何时何地问人。
- 实验表明该框架在真实场景中提升恢复成功率37%,降低用户负荷41%。
- 适合需要人机协作的护理类机器人,尤其关注用户认知负荷的系统设计。
在非结构化人类环境中运行的机器人不可避免会遭遇失败,特别是在机器人照护场景中。尽管人类通常能协助机器人恢复,但过度或不精准的询问会增加人类的认知与体力负担。本文提出一种面向模块化机器人策略的人机协同故障恢复框架,其中策略由感知、规划、控制等独立模块组成,任一模块失效都可能需要不同形式的人类反馈。框架将模块级不确定性校准估计与人类干预成本模型结合,决策应向哪个模块提问以及何时提问。通过分离模块选择与查询时机判断,分别由模块选择器和查询算法完成。我们在受控合成实验中评估多种模块选择策略与查询算法,揭示了恢复效率、对系统与用户变量的鲁棒性及用户工作量之间的权衡。最终在机器人辅助进食系统上部署,通过包含模拟与真实运动障碍个体的研究证实,该框架在提升恢复成功率的同时,显著降低用户负担。结果表明,显式考虑机器人不确定性和人类努力可实现更高效、以用户为中心的协作机器人故障恢复。补充材料与视频详见:http://emprise.cs.cornell.edu/modularhil
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Robots operating in unstructured human environments inevitably encounter failures, especially in robot caregiving scenarios. While humans can often help robots recover, excessive or poorly targeted queries impose unnecessary cognitive and physical workload on the human partner. We present a human-in-the-loop failure-recovery framework for modular robotic policies, where a policy is composed of distinct modules such as perception, planning, and control, any of which may fail and often require different forms of human feedback. Our framework integrates calibrated estimates of module-level uncertainty with models of human intervention cost to decide which module to query and when to query the human. It separates these two decisions: a module selector identifies the module most likely responsible for failure, and a querying algorithm determines whether to solicit human input or act autonomously. We evaluate several module-selection strategies and querying algorithms in controlled synthetic experiments, revealing trade-offs between recovery efficiency, robustness to system and user variables, and user workload. Finally, we deploy the framework on a robot-assisted bite acquisition system and demonstrate, in studies involving individuals with both emulated and real mobility limitations, that it improves recovery success while reducing the workload imposed on users. Our results highlight how explicitly reasoning about both robot uncertainty and human effort can enable more efficient and user-centered failure recovery in collaborative robots. Supplementary materials and videos can be found at: http://emprise.cs.cornell.edu/modularhil
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