Who's in charge here? A survey on Trustworthy AI in Variable Autonomy Robotic Systems

L Methnani, M Chiou, V Dignum… - ACM Computing Surveys, 2024 - dl.acm.org
This article surveys the Variable Autonomy (VA) robotics literature that considers two
contributory elements to Trustworthy AI: transparency and explainability. These elements …

A Survey of Algorithmic Methods for Competency Self-Assessments in Human-Autonomy Teaming

N Conlon, NR Ahmed, D Szafir - ACM Computing Surveys, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Humans working with autonomous artificially intelligent systems may not be experts in the
inner workings of their machine teammates, but need to understand when to employ, trust …

How safe am i given what i see? calibrated prediction of safety chances for image-controlled autonomy

Z Mao, C Sobolewski, I Ruchkin - 6th Annual Learning for …, 2024 - proceedings.mlr.press
End-to-end learning has emerged as a major paradigm for developing autonomous
controllers. Unfortunately, with its performance and convenience comes an even greater …

A hierarchical variable autonomy mixed-initiative framework for human-robot teaming in mobile robotics

D Panagopoulos, G Petousakis… - 2022 IEEE 3rd …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a Mixed-Initiative (MI) framework for addressing the problem of control
authority transfer between a remote human operator and an AI agent when cooperatively …

[HTML][HTML] Event-triggered robot self-assessment to aid in autonomy adjustment

N Conlon, N Ahmed, D Szafir - Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Introduction: Human–robot teams are being called upon to accomplish increasingly complex
tasks. During execution, the robot may operate at different levels of autonomy (LOAs) …

Experimental evaluation of model predictive mixed-initiative variable autonomy systems applied to human-robot teams

A Ramesh, CA Braun, T Ruan… - … on Systems, Man …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Adjusting the level of autonomy in human-machine systems (eg, human-robot systems)
holds great potential for achieving high system performance while maintaining operator …

Reconciling Conflicting Intents: Bidirectional Trust-Based Variable Autonomy for Mobile Robots

Y Li, R Cui, W Yan, S Zhang… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the realm of semi-autonomous mobile robots designed for remote operation with humans,
current variable autonomy approaches struggle to reconcile conflicting intents while …

Robot health indicator: A visual cue to improve level of autonomy switching systems

A Ramesh, M Englund, A Theodorou, R Stolkin… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Using different Levels of Autonomy (LoA), a human operator can vary the extent of control
they have over a robot's actions. LoAs enable operators to mitigate a robot's performance …

Model predictive control of the degree of automation optimizing robot health

CA Braun, A Ramesh, S Rothfuß… - 2023 IEEE 17th …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Adjusting operator support in human-machine systems is a promising way of combining
operator involvement with high overall system performance. Adaptive automation aims to …

Model predictive degree of automation regulation for mobile robots using robot vitals and robot health

CA Braun, A Ramesh, S Rothfuss, M Chiou, R Stolkin… - IFAC-PapersOnLine, 2023 - Elsevier
Environmental adversities can severely impact the performance of human-robot teams,
potentially even leading to task failure. If the operator and the robot automation are not …