Sliding Scale Autonomy and Trust in Human-robot Interaction

ISBN-10
1109808259
ISBN-13
9781109808254
Category
Autonomous robots
Pages
73
Language
English
Published
2007
Author
Munjal Desai

Description

Autonomy defines what robots can do independently: the greater the autonomy, the more robots can do. However, giving more autonomy to robots does not always mean they can perform better. Adjustable autonomy systems solve this problem by providing multiple autonomy levels from which to select. The system designers select the autonomy levels based on what they think would be appropriate for the application. However there are circumstances where a required autonomy level is not provided. We designed a sliding scale autonomy system that provides a continuum of autonomy levels. We included a trust slider to ensure that the robot would take appropriate initiative in accordance with the level of trust that the user has of the robot. Our system was tested against two different adjustable autonomy systems for performance. Overall, users had fewer hits and lower run times with the sliding scale autonomy systems compared to the other two systems.

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