人間とロボットの協調における計画学習:適応的インタラクションのためのマルチモーダル強化学習
Learning to Plan in Human-Robot Collaboration: Multimodal Reinforcement Learning for Adaptive Interaction
家庭内で物体を探す際に、言語と身体動作を含むマルチモーダル信号を扱いながらユーザーを支援するロボットの対話方針を、強化学習で自動生成する手法を提案し、実世界でのユーザー研究で有効性を示した。
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著者: Afagh Mehri Shervedani, Siyu Li, Natawut Monaikul, Bahareh Abbasi, Barbara Di Eugenio, Miloš Žefran
分類: cs.RO
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Robot assistants for older adults and people with disabilities need to perform collaborative tasks with users effectively. The core component of these systems is an interaction manager whose job is to observe and assess the task and infer the state of the human and their intent for the robot to choose the best course of action. Due to the sparseness of the data in this domain, the policy for such multimodal systems is often crafted by hand; as the complexity of interactions grows, this process is not scalable. This paper proposes a reinforcement learning (RL) approach to automatically generate the multimodal policy of the robot. Our system focuses on a realistic scenario where a robot assists a user in locating objects within a home environment, managing multimodal signals, including language and physical actions, to select the best action. In contrast to traditional dialog systems, our agent is trained with a simulator that uses human data and can deal with multiple modalities. We use a simple high-level reward function that needs no fine-tuning and enforce some preconditions to speed up the training process. A human study evaluating the system in a real-world setting demonstrates promising results, indicating high usability and effective task completion. This RL-based approach offers a scalable and interpretable alternative for designing interaction managers in multimodal human-robot collaborations.