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A Modular and Portable Black Box Recorder for Increased Transparency of Autonomous Service Robots

Schmidt, Max ; Kirchhoff, Jérôme ; Stryk, Oskar von (2022)
A Modular and Portable Black Box Recorder for Increased Transparency of Autonomous Service Robots.
In: IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 7 (4)
doi: 10.1109/LRA.2022.3193633
Article, Bibliographie

Abstract

Autonomous service robots have great potential to support humans in tasks they cannot perform due to, amongst others, time constraints, work overload, or staff shortages. An important step for such service robots to be trusted or accepted by society is the provision of transparency. Its purpose is not only to communicate what a robot is doing according to the human interaction partners' needs, it should also regard social and legal requirements. A black box recorder (inspired by flight recorders) increases the system's transparency by facilitating the investigation of the cause of an incident, clarifying responsibilities, or improving the user's understanding about the robot. In this work we propose the needed requirements of such a black box recorder for increased transparency of autonomous service robots, based on the related work. Further, we present a new modular and portable black box recorder design meeting these requirements. The applicability of the system is evaluated based on real-world robot data, using the realized open-source reference implementation.

Item Type: Article
Erschienen: 2022
Creators: Schmidt, Max ; Kirchhoff, Jérôme ; Stryk, Oskar von
Type of entry: Bibliographie
Title: A Modular and Portable Black Box Recorder for Increased Transparency of Autonomous Service Robots
Language: English
Date: 1 October 2022
Publisher: IEEE
Journal or Publication Title: IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
Volume of the journal: 7
Issue Number: 4
DOI: 10.1109/LRA.2022.3193633
URL / URN: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9839510/
Abstract:

Autonomous service robots have great potential to support humans in tasks they cannot perform due to, amongst others, time constraints, work overload, or staff shortages. An important step for such service robots to be trusted or accepted by society is the provision of transparency. Its purpose is not only to communicate what a robot is doing according to the human interaction partners' needs, it should also regard social and legal requirements. A black box recorder (inspired by flight recorders) increases the system's transparency by facilitating the investigation of the cause of an incident, clarifying responsibilities, or improving the user's understanding about the robot. In this work we propose the needed requirements of such a black box recorder for increased transparency of autonomous service robots, based on the related work. Further, we present a new modular and portable black box recorder design meeting these requirements. The applicability of the system is evaluated based on real-world robot data, using the realized open-source reference implementation.

Uncontrolled Keywords: emergenCITY_CPS
Divisions: 20 Department of Computer Science
20 Department of Computer Science > Simulation, Systems Optimization and Robotics Group
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Date Deposited: 27 Feb 2023 13:04
Last Modified: 11 Aug 2023 12:34
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