arXiv:2607.14826cs.ROcs.AI2026-07

让机器人动作测试更安全高效,自动定位失败原因并推荐修正方案。

Interventional Causal Circuits for Safe Robot Action Testing and Failure Recovery

论文配图:Interventional Causal Circuits for Safe Robot Action Testing and Failure Recovery
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  • 用因果电路结合概率树,精准定位导致动作失败的参数
  • 在高质量数据下减少10.3%失败尝试,低质量下减少37%
  • 生成可解释的故障报告,支持人工监管和自主恢复

机器人执行动作前需确保安全且成功。但实际中运动参数的正式测试计算成本高,且随动作空间维度增加而急剧上升。当动作被测试器拒绝时,盲目重采样效率低下且无反馈。本文提出一种闭环框架,将联合概率树(JPT)与基于边际确定性变量树的因果电路结合,实现无需重新训练或额外数据收集的精确多项式时间计算。该框架在机器人启动前验证所有干预查询的可计算性,自动排除不支持的候选方案。在ROS2仿真环境中实验显示:高质量JPT下失败尝试减少10.3%,劣化JPT下总失败尝试减少37%。每个被拒计划均生成结构化、可解释的因果报告,明确主因变量、观测值及推荐修正区间,支持操作员监督与自主恢复,无需额外训练失败模型。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Safe physical AI for robot actions are required not only likely to succeed but tested to be safe before execution. In practice, however, formal testing of motion parameters is computationally expensive, and the cost scales poorly with the dimensionality of the action space. When a proposed action is rejected by a tester, the naive response is to resample blindly until a passing candidate is found. This is wasteful, uninformative, and offers no convergence. We argue that rejection should instead trigger causal diagnosis: a principled identification of which action parameter caused the failure and what corrective value maximises the probability of passing testing under the interventional probability distribution. We propose a closed-loop framework that couples a Joint Probability Tree (JPT) with a Causal Circuit derived from a Marginal-Deterministic Variable Tree, enabling exact polytime computation without retraining, or additional data collection. The framework validates tractability of all interventional queries before the robot begins operating, and out-of-support candidates are detected and excluded from correction automatically. We perform experiments in a ROS2 simulation environment, and the framework demonstrates complementary roles across quality of distribution: under a high-quality JPT, the Causal Circuit reduces failed attempts by 10.3% and under a degraded JPT, it reduces total failed attempts by 37%. Every rejected plan produces a structured, interpretable causal report naming the primary cause variable, its observed value, and the recommended corrective region, supporting operator oversight and autonomous recovery without a separately trained failure model.

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