How Much Do You Trust Me? Learning a Case-Based Model of Inverse Trust

Abstract

Robots can be important additions to human teams if they improve team performance by providing new skills or improving existing skills. However, to get the full benefits of a robot the team must trust and use it appropriately. We present an agent algorithm that allows a robot to estimate its trustworthiness and adapt its behavior in an attempt to increase trust. It uses case-based reasoning to store previous behavior adaptations and uses this information to perform future adaptations. We compare case-based behavior adaptation to behavior adaptation that does not learn and show it significantly reduces the number of behaviors that need to be evaluated before a trustworthy behavior is found. Our evaluation is in a simulated robotics environment and involves a movement scenario and a patrolling/threat detection scenario.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2014
Accession Number
ADA616513

Entities

People

  • David W. Aha
  • Michael Drinkwater
  • Michael W. Floyd

Organizations

  • United States Naval Research Laboratory

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Command And Control
  • Detection
  • Environment
  • Explosive Devices
  • Explosives
  • Ground Vehicles
  • Learning
  • Patrolling
  • Random Walk
  • Reasoning
  • Robotics
  • Robots
  • Unmanned Ground Vehicles
  • Unmanned Systems
  • Unmanned Vehicles

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Agent-Based Social Robotics and Mobile-Assisted Learning in Virtual Environments.

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - Autonomous Systems
  • Autonomy