Enhancing Safety and Explainability of Reinforcement Learning Agents for Environmental Monitoring Tasks
Year:
2025
Type of item:
Contributo in atti di convegno
Tipologia ANVUR:
Contributo in Atti di convegno
Language:
Inglese
Name of journal:
CEUR WORKSHOP PROCEEDINGS
ISSN of journal:
1613-0073
N° Volume:
4121
Congresso:
Proc. Ital-IA 2025: 5th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, organized by CINI
Place:
Trieste
Period:
June 23–24
:
CEUR-WS.org
Publisher:
CEUR-WS.org
Page numbers:
1-6
Keyword:
Safe Reinforcement Learning, Formal Verification of Neural Networks, Explainable and Neurosymbolic AI, Safe Deployment
Short description of contents:
Mitigating pollution in aquatic ecosystems is among the most pressing challenges in environmental sustainabil-
ity applications. While effective monitoring and intervention activities are key to safeguarding water quality,
protecting biodiversity, and supporting industries (e.g., aquaculture), this is traditionally done by human oper-
ators—making the process costly, time-consuming, and often inadequate for capturing timely environmental
changes. In this work, we focus on safe, explainable design and deployment of autonomous reinforcement
learning (RL) agents for environmental monitoring tasks. In particular, we present our recent contributions to: i)
safe RL techniques, ii) Neurosymbolic RL, iii) formal verification of deep RL policies, and iv) designing robust
control strategies for safe deployment.