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View SchemaModel Reconciliation through Explainability and Collaborative Recovery in Assistive Robotics
| Authors | Britt Besch, Tai Mai, Jeremias Thun, Markus Huff, Jörn Vogel, Freek Stulp, Samuel Bustamante |
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| ArXiv ID | 2601.06552vv1 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.06552 |
| License | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
Abstract
Whenever humans and robots work together, it is essential that unexpected robot behavior can be explained to the user. Especially in applications such as shared control the user and the robot must share the same model of the objects in the world, and the actions that can be performed on these objects. In this paper, we achieve this with a so-called model reconciliation framework. We leverage a Large Language Model to predict and explain the difference between the robot's and the human's mental models, without the need of a formal mental model of the user. Furthermore, our framework aims to solve the model divergence after the explanation by allowing the human to correct the robot. We provide an implementation in an assistive robotics domain, where we conduct a set of experiments with a real wheelchair-based mobile manipulator and its digital twin.
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"title": "Model Reconciliation through Explainability and Collaborative Recovery in Assistive Robotics",
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