Operation and Imitation under Safety-Aware Shared Control
| Title: | Operation and Imitation under Safety-Aware Shared Control |
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| Publication Type: | Conference Paper |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Authors: | A. Broad, T. D. Murphey, and B. Argall |
| Conference Name: | Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics WAFR |
| Abstract: | We describe a shared control methodology that can, with- out knowledge of the task, be used to improve a human s control of a dynamic system, be used as a training mechanism, and be used in conjunction with Imitation Learning to generate autonomous policies that recreate novel behaviors. Our algorithm introduces autonomy that assists the human partner by enforcing safety and stability constraints. The autonomous agent has no a priori knowledge of the desired task and therefore only adds control information when there is concern for the safety of the system. We evaluate the efficacy of our approach with a human subjects study consisting of 20 participants. We find that our shared control algorithm significantly improves the rate at which users are able to successfully execute novel behaviors. Experimental results suggest that the benefits of our safety-aware shared control algorithm also extend to the human partner s understanding of the system and their control skill. Finally, we demonstrate how a combination of our safety-aware shared control algorithm and Imitation Learning can be used to autonomously recreate the demonstrated behaviors. |
PDF: 2018WAFRBrMuAr.pdf
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