Safety Assurances for Human-Robot Interaction via Confidence-aware Game-theoretic Human Models

Ran Tian,Liting Sun,Andrea Bajcsy,Masayoshi Tomizuka,Anca D. Dragan,Ran Tian,Liting Sun,Andrea Bajcsy,Masayoshi Tomizuka,Anca D. Dragan

An outstanding challenge with safety methods for human-robot interaction is reducing their conservatism while maintaining robustness to variations in human behavior. In this work, we propose that robots use confidence-aware game-theoretic models of human behavior when assessing the safety of a human-robot interaction. By treating the influence between the human and robot as well as the human's rat...