Framing Human-Robot Task Communication as a Partially Observable Markov Decision Process
Contributors: Wood, Robert J.; Parkes, David; Nagpal, Radhika
Published: 2012
Language: eng
Description: As general purpose robots become more capable, pre-programming of all tasks at the factory will become less practical. We would like for non-technical human owners to be able to communicate, through interaction with their robot, the details of a new task; I call this interaction &ldquo;task communication&rdquo;. During task communication the robot must infer the details of the task from unstructured human signals, and it must choose actions that facilitate this inference.
Notes: Keywords: Human robot interaction, Learning from humans.

Thesis Ph.D. Harvard University 2012