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Title: JEDAI: A System for Skill-Aligned Explainable Robot Planning
This paper presents JEDAI Explains Decision-Making AI (JEDAI), an AI system designed for outreach and educational efforts aimed at non-AI experts. JEDAI features a novel synthesis of research ideas from integrated task and motion planning and explainable AI. JEDAI helps users create high-level, intuitive plans while ensuring that they will be executable by the robot. It also provides users customized explanations about errors and helps improve their understanding of AI planning as well as the limits and capabilities of the underlying robot system.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
1942856
PAR ID:
10342142
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Date Published:
Journal Name:
Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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