Using Explainable Artificial Intelligence to Improve Transparency of Reinforcement Learning for Online Adaptive Flight Control: Breaking Open the Black Box

Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) shows great potential for flight control, due to its adaptability, fault-tolerance, and as it does not require an accurate system model. However, these techniques, like many machine learning applications, are considered black-box as their inner workings are hidden. This paper aims to break open the black box of...

Classifying Human Pilot Skill Level Using Deep Artificial Neural Networks

To fully optimize the synergy between human operators and machines in modern day’s highly automated vehicle control tasks, a real-time quantitative feedback of skill level is required. Direct feedback of skill level could be used to enable scalable levels of autonomy of the controlled system, or to provide a warning when sudden skill level...

Evaluating the performance of the LIME and Grad-CAM explanation methods on a LEGO multi-label image classification task

In this paper, we run two methods of explanation, namely LIME and Grad-CAM, on a convolutional neural network trained to label images with the LEGO bricks that are visible in them. We evaluate them on two criteria, the improvement of the network's core performance and the trust they are able to generate for users of the system. We nd that in...