水中ロボティクスにおけるLLM支援の階層的展望
A Layered View of LLM Support in Underwater Robotics
水中ロボットの現場運用では低レベル制御の生成よりも障害診断や遠隔解釈・ミッション調整が負担であると指摘し、従来の自律制御の上にLLMを支援層として重ねる階層アーキテクチャを提唱した展望論文。
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著者: Federico Celi, Leonardo Zacchini, Gabriele Ferri
分類: cs.RO, eess.SY
原文アブストラクト
This extended abstract discusses a specific and, in our experience, practically relevant role for large language models (LLMs) in underwater robotics. Our main premise is that, in underwater fielding missions, the immediate difficulty is often not the synthesis of new low-level control laws, but the operation of complex robotic systems under limited communications, partial observability, and expensive field time. In particular, a significant fraction of the effort during sea trials is devoted to fault diagnosis, telemetry interpretation, mission adjustment, and coordination across heterogeneous assets and operators. We argue that LLMs may be useful at this higher operational level, especially when grounded in structured vehicle state, alarms, logs, mission context, and existing planning or validation tools. At the same time, current limitations in grounding, consistency, and causal reasoning make these systems lack the predictability required to guarantee direct control, especially in real-world critical applications, although we do not exclude a future evolution in this direction. This viewpoint suggests a layered architecture in which conventional autonomy remains responsible for control, perception, estimation, and validated mission execution, whereas LLM-based modules serve as an additional support layer for debugging, operator interaction, constrained replanning support, orchestration, and post-mission analysis.