Norms, Institutions, and Robots
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| author | Tomic, Stevan Pecora, Federico Saffiotti, Alessandro |
| author_facet | Tomic, Stevan Pecora, Federico Saffiotti, Alessandro |
| contents | Interactions within human societies are usually regulated by social norms. If robots are to be accepted into human society, it is essential that they are aware of and capable of reasoning about social norms. In this paper, we focus on how to represent social norms in societies with humans and robots, and how artificial agents such as robots can reason about social norms in order to plan appropriate behavior. We use the notion of institution as a way to formally define and encapsulate norms, and we provide a formal framework for institutions. Our framework borrows ideas from the field of multi-agent systems to define abstract normative models, and ideas from the field of robotics to define physical executions as state-space trajectories. By bridging the two in a common model, our framework allows us to use the same abstract institution across physical domains and agent types. We then make our framework computational via a reduction to CSP and show experiments where this reduction is used for norm verification, planning, and plan execution in a domain including a mixture of humans and robots. |
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| spellingShingle | Norms, Institutions, and Robots Tomic, Stevan Pecora, Federico Saffiotti, Alessandro Artificial Intelligence Computers and Society Multiagent Systems Interactions within human societies are usually regulated by social norms. If robots are to be accepted into human society, it is essential that they are aware of and capable of reasoning about social norms. In this paper, we focus on how to represent social norms in societies with humans and robots, and how artificial agents such as robots can reason about social norms in order to plan appropriate behavior. We use the notion of institution as a way to formally define and encapsulate norms, and we provide a formal framework for institutions. Our framework borrows ideas from the field of multi-agent systems to define abstract normative models, and ideas from the field of robotics to define physical executions as state-space trajectories. By bridging the two in a common model, our framework allows us to use the same abstract institution across physical domains and agent types. We then make our framework computational via a reduction to CSP and show experiments where this reduction is used for norm verification, planning, and plan execution in a domain including a mixture of humans and robots. |
| title | Norms, Institutions, and Robots |
| topic | Artificial Intelligence Computers and Society Multiagent Systems |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.11456 |