2021/03/18 by Guo, Yaohui, Shi, Cong, Yang, X. Jessie
#FOS: Computer and information sciences #Robotics (cs.RO)
paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2103.10055
To facilitate effective human-robot interaction (HRI), trust-aware HRI has been proposed, wherein the robotic agent explicitly considers the human's trust during its planning and decision making. The success of trust-aware HRI depends on the specification of a trust dynamics model and a trust-behavior model. In this study, we proposed one novel trust-behavior model, namely the reverse psychology model, and compared it against the commonly used disuse model. We examined how the two models affect the robot's optimal policy and the human-robot team performance. Results indicate that the robot will deliberately "manipulate" the human's trust under the reverse psychology model. To correct this "manipulative" behavior, we proposed a trust-seeking reward function that facilitates trust establishment without significantly sacrificing the team performance.