CT-SAFR: Safe and Interpretable Chain-of-Thought Reasoning for Autonomous Robots: A Multi-Layered Verification Framework for Trustworthy AI-Driven Robotic Decision Making

arXiv:2609.09692 · cs.RO, cs.AI · Submitted 2026-09-09 · Read on arXiv

cs.RO, cs.AI

Submitted: 2026-09-09

Updated: 2026-09-09

Comments: 7 pages, 4 figures. Accepted version. Published in 2026 IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence (CAI), pp. 598-603

Journal ref: 2026 IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence (CAI), pp. 598-603, May 2026

DOI: 10.1109/CAI68641.2026.11536646

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Verification — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Chain-of-Thought (CoT) — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Chain-of-Thought (CoT) Prompting — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Chain-of-Thought Safety and Faithfulness for Robotics — 1× in this paper
• Hallucination — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Hallucination Detection — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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