Towards Rationally Safe Robots
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چکیده
This paper introduces the concept of rationally safe robot behavior as behavior which is safe with respect to a rational model of human behavior. We discuss how to model rational human behavior by fully accounting for a range of acceptable human variations. We propose modelling the system as a form of robust controller, and frame the robot’s goal as an optimal control problem where the human’s possible actions are probabilistic and/or possibilistic. A simple example is provided which applies the framework to a linear quadratic problem.
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