Reachability-based Human-in-the-Loop Control with Uncertain SpecificationsShow others and affiliations
2020 (English)In: IFAC PAPERSONLINE, Elsevier BV , 2020, Vol. 53, no 2, p. 1880-1887Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
We propose a shared autonomy approach for implementing human operator decisions onto an automated system during multi-objective missions, while guaranteeing safety and mission completion. A mission is specified as a set of linear temporal logic (LTL) formulae. Then, using a novel correspondence between LTL and reachability analysis, we synthesize a set of controllers for assisting the human operator to complete the mission, while guaranteeing that the system maintains specified spatial and temporal properties. We assume the human operator's exact preference of how to complete the mission is unknown. Instead, we use a datadriven approach to infer and update the automated system's internal belief of which specified objective the human intends to complete. If, while the human is operating the system, she provides inputs that violate any of the invariances prescribed by the LTL formula, our verified controller will use its internal belief of the human operator's intended objective to guide the operator back on track. Moreover, we show that as long as the specifications are initially feasible, our controller will stay feasible and can guide the human to complete the mission despite some unexpected human errors. We illustrate our approach with a simple, but practical, experimental setup where a remote operator is parking a vehicle in a parking lot with multiple parking options. In these experiments, we show that our approach is able to infer the human operator's preference over parking spots in real-time and guarantee that the human will park in the spot safely.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Elsevier BV , 2020. Vol. 53, no 2, p. 1880-1887
Keywords [en]
shared autonomy, linear temporal logic, reachability analysis, robotic missions, safety, automated vehicles
National Category
Robotics and automation
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-298156DOI: 10.1016/j.ifacol.2020.12.2572ISI: 000652592500303Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85095554411OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-298156DiVA, id: diva2:1582581
Conference
21st IFAC World Congress on Automatic Control - Meeting Societal Challenges, JUL 11-17, 2020, ELECTR NETWORK
Note
QC 20210802
2021-08-022021-08-022025-02-09Bibliographically approved