The ORCA Hub: Explainable Offshore Robotics through Intelligent Interfaces
By Helen Wright Hastie, K. Lohan, M. Chantler, David A. Robb, Subramanian Ramamoorthy, Ronald P. A. Petrick, Sethu Vijayakumar, David Lane. 2018
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We present the UK Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Hub for Offshore Robotics for Certification of Assets (ORCA Hub), a 3.5 year EPSRC funded, multi-site project. The ORCA Hub vision is to use teams of robots and autonomous intelligent systems (AIS) to work on offshore energy platforms to enable cheaper, safer and more efficient working practices. The ORCA Hub will research, integrate, validate and deploy remote AIS solutions that can operate with existing and future offshore energy assets and sensors, interacting safely in autonomous or semi-autonomous modes in complex and cluttered environments, co-operating with remote operators. The goal is that through the use of such robotic systems offshore, the need for personnel will decrease. To enable this to happen, the remote operator will need a high level of situation awareness and key to this is the transparency of what the autonomous systems are doing and why. This increased transparency will facilitate a trusting relationship, which is particularly key in high-stakes, hazardous situations.
Subfields: Ocean Engineering
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Citations in the corpus
- Explain Yourself: A Natural Language Interface for Scrutable Autonomous Robots (2018, background): “This combined with high vulnerability in hazardous, high-stakes environments, such as that described in [7], means that the interface between operator and AxV is key in maintaining situation awareness and understanding.”
- Explainable Autonomy: A Study of Explanation Styles for Building Clear Mental Models (2018, background): “Robots and autonomous systems are increasingly being operated remotely in hazardous environments such as in the nuclear or energy sector domains (Hastie et al., 2018; Li et al., 2017; Kwon and Yi, 2012; Nagatani et al., 2013; Shukla and Karki, 2016; Wong et al., 2017).”