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On Optimizing Interventions in Shared Autonomy

16 Dec 2021arXiv:2112.09169archive 2025-07-28

Weihao Tan, David Koleczek, Siddhant Pradhan, Nicholas Perello, Vivek Chettiar, Vishal Rohra, Aaslesha Rajaram, Soundararajan Srinivasan, H M Sajjad Hossain, Yash Chandak

Shared autonomy refers to approaches for enabling an autonomous agent to collaborate with a human with the aim of improving human performance. However, besides improving performance, it may often also be beneficial that the agent concurrently accounts for preserving the user's experience or satisfaction of collaboration. In order to address this additional goal, we examine approaches for improving the user experience by constraining the number of interventions by the autonomous agent. We propose two model-free reinforcement learning methods that can account for both hard and soft constraints on the number of interventions. We show that not only does our method outperform the existing baseline, but also eliminates the need to manually tune a black-box hyperparameter for controlling the level of assistance. We also provide an in-depth analysis of intervention scenarios in order to further illuminate system understanding.

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