The Laboratory of Projects of Intelligent Robotics and Advanced Cognitive Systems – PRISCA Lab – has obtained an important European funding in the framework of the Call 2019 of the CHIST-ERA ERA-NET for the topic Explainable Machine Learning-based Artificial Intelligence - XAI.
Prof. Silvia Rossi is the Principal Investigator of the project titled COHERENT - "COllaborative HiErarchical Robotic ExplaNaTions". For robots to build trustable interactions with users two aspects will be crucial during the next decade: the ability to produce explainable decisions and to be able to effectively communicate such decisions and re-plan according to new user inputs in real-time along with the execution. The COHERENT project will develop a novel framework to coordinate explanations originated at the different robotic levels and to be able to deliver these explanations during the execution of the task. To have effective interactions, an interface of communication with the user will be developed to both explain and receive inputs in the form of user preferences, requirements or suggestions to execute a task, at different levels of human expertise. Validation will entail a new benchmark to assess acceptance and effectiveness of explanations based on experiments with subjects.
Out of the 109 proposals submitted to the topic, only 12 were selected. Partners of the project are King’s College London (UK) e il Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (ES).
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http://www.ricercainternazionale.miur.it/era/eranet-cofund-(h2020)/chist-era-iv.aspx