CE-MRS: Contrastive Explanations for Multi-Robot Systems

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Autori principali: Schneider, Ethan, Wu, Daniel, Das, Devleena, Chernova, Sonia
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Pubblicazione: 2024
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author Schneider, Ethan
Wu, Daniel
Das, Devleena
Chernova, Sonia
author_facet Schneider, Ethan
Wu, Daniel
Das, Devleena
Chernova, Sonia
contents As the complexity of multi-robot systems grows to incorporate a greater number of robots, more complex tasks, and longer time horizons, the solutions to such problems often become too complex to be fully intelligible to human users. In this work, we introduce an approach for generating natural language explanations that justify the validity of the system's solution to the user, or else aid the user in correcting any errors that led to a suboptimal system solution. Toward this goal, we first contribute a generalizable formalism of contrastive explanations for multi-robot systems, and then introduce a holistic approach to generating contrastive explanations for multi-robot scenarios that selectively incorporates data from multi-robot task allocation, scheduling, and motion-planning to explain system behavior. Through user studies with human operators we demonstrate that our integrated contrastive explanation approach leads to significant improvements in user ability to identify and solve system errors, leading to significant improvements in overall multi-robot team performance.
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spellingShingle CE-MRS: Contrastive Explanations for Multi-Robot Systems
Schneider, Ethan
Wu, Daniel
Das, Devleena
Chernova, Sonia
Robotics
Human-Computer Interaction
Multiagent Systems
As the complexity of multi-robot systems grows to incorporate a greater number of robots, more complex tasks, and longer time horizons, the solutions to such problems often become too complex to be fully intelligible to human users. In this work, we introduce an approach for generating natural language explanations that justify the validity of the system's solution to the user, or else aid the user in correcting any errors that led to a suboptimal system solution. Toward this goal, we first contribute a generalizable formalism of contrastive explanations for multi-robot systems, and then introduce a holistic approach to generating contrastive explanations for multi-robot scenarios that selectively incorporates data from multi-robot task allocation, scheduling, and motion-planning to explain system behavior. Through user studies with human operators we demonstrate that our integrated contrastive explanation approach leads to significant improvements in user ability to identify and solve system errors, leading to significant improvements in overall multi-robot team performance.
title CE-MRS: Contrastive Explanations for Multi-Robot Systems
topic Robotics
Human-Computer Interaction
Multiagent Systems
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.08408