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Risk-Aware Planning of Collaborative Mobile Robot Applications with Uncertain Task Durations

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Authors:

Anders Lager, Branko Miloradovic, Giacomo Spampinato , Thomas Nolte, Alessandro Papadopoulos

Research groups:

Robotics
Complex Real-Time Embedded Systems

Publication Type:

Conference/Workshop Paper

Venue:

International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication

Abstract

The efficiency of collaborative mobile robot applications is influenced by the inherent uncertainty introduced by humans’ presence and active participation. This uncertainty stems from the dynamic nature of the working environment, various external factors, and human performance variability. The observed makespan of an executed plan will deviate from any deterministic estimate. This raises questions about whether a calculated plan is optimal given uncertainties, potentially risking failure to complete the plan within the estimated timeframe. This research addresses a collaborative task planning problem for a mobile robot serving multiple humans through tasks such as providing parts and fetching assemblies. To account for uncertainties in the durations needed for a single robot and multiple humans to perform different tasks, a probabilistic modeling approach is employed, treating task durations as random variables. The developed task planning algorithm considers the modeled uncertainties while searching for the most efficient plans. The outcome is a set of the best plans, where no plan is better than the other in terms of stochastic dominance. Our proposed methodology offers a systematic framework for making informed decisions regarding selecting a plan from this set, considering the desired risk level specific to the given operational context.

Bibtex

@inproceedings{Lager6974,
author = {Anders Lager and Branko Miloradovic and Giacomo Spampinato and Thomas Nolte and Alessandro Papadopoulos},
title = {Risk-Aware Planning of Collaborative Mobile Robot Applications with Uncertain Task Durations},
month = {August},
year = {2024},
booktitle = {International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication},
url = {http://www.es.mdu.se/publications/6974-}
}