Inferring team task plans from human meetings: A generative modeling approach with logic-based prior
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Kim, Been
Chacha, Caleb M.
Shah, Julie A.
Date Issued
March 2015
Journal
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
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Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
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Kim, Been, Caleb M. Chacha, and Julie A. Shah. "Inferring team task plans from human meetings: A generative modeling approach with logic-based prior." Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research 52 (2015): 361-398. © 2015 AI Access Foundation
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Abstract
We aim to reduce the burden of programming and deploying autonomous systems to work in concert with people in time-critical domains such as military field operations and disaster response. Deployment plans for these operations are frequently negotiated on-the-fly by teams of human planners. A human operator then translates the agreed-upon plan into machine instructions for the robots. We present an algorithm that reduces this translation burden by inferring the final plan from a processed form of the human team's planning conversation. Our hybrid approach combines probabilistic generative modeling with logical plan validation used to compute a highly structured prior over possible plans, enabling us to overcome the challenge of performing inference over a large solution space with only a small amount of noisy data from the team planning session. We validate the algorithm through human subject experimentations and show that it is able to infer a human team's final plan with 86% accuracy on average. We also describe a robot demonstration in which two people plan and execute a first-response collaborative task with a PR2 robot. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first work to integrate a logical planning technique within a generative model to perform plan inference.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
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https://doi.org/10.1613/jair.4496
