为机器人操作设计实时伦理监管,确保安全决策不降效。
A Real-Time Neuro-Symbolic Ethical Governor for Safe Decision Control in Autonomous Robotic Manipulation
- 用神经符号方法融合语言理解与风险评估,动态判断伦理风险。
- 在不同人机距离场景下,风险识别准确且任务效率基本不变。
- 比纯数据模型更透明,适合医疗、陪护等高安全要求场景。
自主机器人在以人为中心和高安全敏感环境中运行时,伦理决策治理成为关键需求。本文提出一种实时神经符号伦理监管框架,用于实现风险感知的监督控制。该框架结合基于Transformer的伦理推理、概率伦理风险场建模及阈值触发的覆盖控制机制。通过在ETHICS常识数据集上微调的DistilBERT模型,从自然语言任务描述中学习语言引导的伦理意图。基于预测的危险动作概率、置信度不确定性与概率方差,生成连续伦理风险度量,支持自适应决策过滤。在包含不同人类接近程度和操作风险的模拟机器人臂任务中验证了有效性。实验表明模型收敛稳定,伦理风险判别可靠,安全意识决策提升,且未显著影响任务执行效率。相比纯数据驱动的安全滤波器,该架构具备更强可解释性,可在实时控制回路中实现透明伦理推理。结果表明,伦理决策治理可有效建模为自主机器人系统的动态监督风险层,具有向更广泛的网络物理系统与辅助机器人领域扩展的潜力。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Ethical decision governance has become a critical requirement for autonomous robotic systems operating in human-centered and safety-sensitive environments. This paper presents a real-time neuro-symbolic ethical governor designed to enable risk-aware supervisory control in autonomous robotic manipulation tasks. The proposed framework integrates transformer-based ethical reasoning with a probabilistic ethical risk field formulation and a threshold-based override control mechanism. language-grounded ethical intent inference capability is learned from natural language task descriptions using a fine-tuned DistilBERT model trained on the ETHICS commonsense dataset. A continuous ethical risk metric is subsequently derived from predicted unsafe action probability, confidence uncertainty, and probabilistic variance to support adaptive decision filtering. The effectiveness of the proposed approach is validated through simulated autonomous robot-arm task scenarios involving varying levels of human proximity and operational hazard. Experimental results demonstrate stable model convergence, reliable ethical risk discrimination, and improved safety-aware decision outcomes without significant degradation of task execution efficiency. The proposed neuro-symbolic architecture further provides enhanced interpretability compared with purely data-driven safety filters, enabling transparent ethical reasoning in real-time control loops. The findings suggest that ethical decision governance can be effectively modeled as a dynamic supervisory risk layer for autonomous robotic systems, with potential applicability to broader cyber-physical and assistive robotics domains.
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