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A Human-Centered Safe Robot Reinforcement Learning Framework with Interactive Behaviors

Shangding Gu; Alap Kshirsagar; Yali Du; Guang Chen; Yaodong Yang; Jan Peters; Alois C. Knoll
In: Computing Research Repository eprint Journal (CoRR), Vol. abs/2302.13137, Pages 0-10, arXiv, 2023.

Abstract

Deployment of reinforcement learning algorithms for robotics applications in the real world requires ensuring the safety of the robot and its environment. Safe robot reinforcement learning (SRRL) is a crucial step towards achieving human-robot coexistence. In this paper, we envision a human-centered SRRL framework consisting of three stages: safe exploration, safety value alignment, and safe collaboration. We examine the research gaps in these areas and propose to leverage interactive behaviors for SRRL. Interactive behaviors enable bi-directional information transfer between humans and robots, such as conversational robot ChatGPT. We argue that interactive behaviors need further attention from the SRRL community. We discuss four open challenges related to the robustness, efficiency, transparency, and adaptability of SRRL with interactive behaviors.

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