Adaptive Shared Control with Online Bounded-Rational Human Behavior Estimation
arXiv:2609.10215v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This work considers adaptive shared human-robot control for nonlinear control-affine systems, where the assumption of a fully rational human is relaxed and the robot adapts its assistance to observed boundedly rational human behavior. We use a level-k bounded-rationality model of the two-player game to construct a finite bank of candidate human and robot policies through alternating best-response computations, with the associated value functions a
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arXiv:2609.10215v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This work considers adaptive shared human-robot control for nonlinear control-affine systems, where the assumption of a fully rational human is relaxed and the robot adapts its assistance to observed boundedly rational human behavior. We use a level-k bounded-rationality model of the two-player game to construct a finite bank of candidate human and robot policies through alternating best-response computations, with the associated value functions and policies approximated using adaptive dynamic programming. During the shared-control interaction, state-transition residuals compare the measured system evolution with the trajectories predicted by the candidate human policies. The residuals are accumulated using a forgetting factor and mapped to a probabilistic human-behavior model over the finite candidate bank. Rather than selecting a single candidate or averaging stored robot policies, the robot computes a distribution-aware one-step best response by minimizing an expected cooperative cost over the complete estimated human behavior distribution. For a quadratic terminal-value approximation and Euler state propagation, this response admits a closed-form solution expressed in terms of the expected human input. The proposed methods are evaluated in simulations of a benchmark nonlinear system stabilization task, and of a planar manipulator shared control setup. The reported results show decreasing Kullback-Leibler divergence between the estimated and simulated human behavior distributions, and a lower accumulated running cost for the robot agent over the shared control interaction period, than the maximum-probability and probability-weighted alternative policies baseline.
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Originally published at arxiv.org.
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Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.10215
