Formalizing and guaranteeing human-robot interaction

Robot capabilities are maturing across domains, from self-driving cars, to bipeds and drones. As a result, robots will soon no longer be confined safety-controlled industrial settings; instead, they directly interact with the general public. The growing field of Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) studies various aspects this scenario - social norms joint action human-robot teams more. Researchers in HRI have made great strides developing models, methods, algorithms for acting around humans, but these "computational HRI" models generally do not come formal guarantees constraints on their operation. To enable human-interactive move lab real-world deployments, we must address gap. This article provides an overview verification, validation synthesis techniques used create demonstrably trustworthy systems, describes several domains that could benefit such techniques, roadmap challenges research needed formalized guaranteed interaction.