Patent US 11,179,846

Methods and systems for enhancing robot's ability to collaborate with human operators by constructing models of objects and processes which are manipulatable by a robot (situation models) and sharing such models with operators. Sharing situation models allows robot to explain its actions to operators in the format they can readily understand. Reciprocally, operators can formulate their instructions to the robot in the format that is both easy to produce for the human and straightforward to interpret in the machine. In this way, the disclosed method and system for constructing situation models in the robot facilitate both adaptation of human operators to robots and adaptation of robots to human operators, thus enhancing collaboration between them.