Socially-Aware Robot Planning via Bandit Human Feedback

03/02/2020
by   Xusheng Luo, et al.
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In this paper, we consider the problem of designing collision-free, dynamically feasible, and socially-aware trajectories for robots operating in environments populated by humans. We define trajectories to be social-aware if they do not interfere with humans in any way that causes discomfort. In this paper, discomfort is defined broadly and, depending on specific individuals, it can result from the robot being too close to a human or from interfering with human sight or tasks. Moreover, we assume that human feedback is a bandit feedback indicating a complaint or no complaint on the part of the robot trajectory that interferes with the humans, and it does not reveal any contextual information about the locations of the humans or the reason for a complaint. Finally, we assume that humans can move in the obstacle-free space and, as a result, human utility can change. We formulate this planning problem as an online optimization problem that minimizes the social value of the time-varying robot trajectory, defined by the total number of incurred human complaints. As the human utility is unknown, we employ zeroth order, or derivative-free, optimization methods to solve this problem, which we combine with off-the-shelf motion planners to satisfy the dynamic feasibility and collision-free specifications of the resulting trajectories. To the best of our knowledge, this is a new framework for socially-aware robot planning that is not restricted to avoiding collisions with humans but, instead, focuses on increasing the social value of the robot trajectories using only bandit human feedback.

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