Explainable Reinforcement Learning in Autonomous Navigation Systems
摘要
Reinforcement learning (RL) is being more extensively applied in autonomous navigation systems to make decisions in real time in dynamic settings. Nevertheless, RL models have a black-box character that makes it difficult to validate safety and acceptability by regulations. The presented paper suggests a combined explainable RL (XRL) system combining explainable policy structures, sophisticated post hoc explanatory algorithms (such as saliency maps, counterfactuals and natural language explanations), and effective human-in-the-loop feedback structures. It is strictly tested on urban driving and warehouse robotics and shows a 94.7% success rate of navigation and a 17.8% decrease in collision rates over non-explainable baselines. User research suggests 28–32 percent increase in trust among the experts and lay users. It is interesting to note that multi-modal explanations facilitate comprehensive diagnostics, facilitate intuitive knowledge to various stakeholders without undermining operational effectiveness. Although issues of real-time latency of computations and scalability of human feedback exist, the outlined practice will be a significant milestone towards safe, transparent, and robust RL-powered autonomous systems. This breakthrough helps to make the wider society more accepting and adherent to ethical and regulatory norms, which preconditions the confident and credible application of AI-based navigation apps.