A Novel Cognitive Approach for Measuring the Trust in Robots

One of the major challenges in human-robot interaction is to determine the trustworthiness of the robot. In order to enhance and augment the human capabilities by establishing a human robot partnership, it is important to evaluate the reliability and dependability of the robots for the specific tasks. The trust relationship between the human and robot becomes critical especially in the cases where there is strong cohesion between humans and robots. In this article, a cognition based-trust model has been developed which measures the trust and other related cognitive parameters of the robot. This trust model has been applied on a customized robot which performs path planning tasks using three different algorithms. The simulation of the model has been done to evaluate the trust of the robot for the three algorithms. The results show that with each learning cycle of each method, the trust of the robot increases. An empirical evaluation has also been done to validate the model.