Situational Confidence Assistance for Lifelong Shared Autonomy

Matthew Zurek,Andreea Bobu,Daniel S. Brown,Anca D. Dragan,Matthew Zurek,Andreea Bobu,Daniel S. Brown,Anca D. Dragan

Shared autonomy enables robots to infer user intent and assist in accomplishing it. But when the user wants to do a new task that the robot does not know about, shared autonomy will hinder their performance by attempting to assist them with something that is not their intent. Our key idea is that the robot can detect when its repertoire of intents is insufficient to explain the user's input, and g...