Autonomous Coordination Policies in Ground-Air Unmanned System Interaction

Abstract

Humans use a variety of complex strategies when solving problems. These strategies are semantically ordered; that is, as the complexity of a problem increases, an explanation of a strategy used for a simpler problem would be related to that of a strategy used for a more complex problem. Machines, however, can learn complex strategies but they normally produce strategies that are different from those used by humans. This leads to loss of trust and ineffective human-machine teaming. We designed machine learning algorithms that can learn incrementally while preserving the meanings embedded in a simpler context as they learn a more complex one. One proposed apprenticeship bootstrapping algorithm has been tested in simulation and physical environments on ground-air interaction tasks, while the others were either demonstrated theoretically or tested on simulated synthetic tasks alone. The research has demonstrated that machine education and bootstrapping techniques should be integral parts of explainable and interpretable machine learning to assure a trustworthy learning machine.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 12, 2023
Accession Number
AD1226616

Entities

People

  • Hussein A. Abbass

Organizations

  • University of New South Wales

Tags

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Neural Network Machine Learning.
  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - Autonomous Systems
  • Autonomy
  • Autonomy - Autonomous System Control
  • Autonomy - Human-Robot Interaction