負荷管理を考慮したマルチエージェントチームのタスク割り当て
Task Allocation with Load Management in Multi-Agent Teams
マルチエージェントチームが予期せぬ負荷に直面しても効率的にタスクを割り当てられるよう、分散強化学習でアイドリングを促しつつ負荷管理を行う意思決定フレームワークを提案した。
著者: Haochen Wu, Amin Ghadami, Alparslan Emrah Bayrak, Jonathon M. Smereka, Bogdan I. Epureanu
分類: cs.MA, cs.AI, cs.RO
原文アブストラクト
In operations of multi-agent teams ranging from homogeneous robot swarms to heterogeneous human-autonomy teams, unexpected events might occur. While efficiency of operation for multi-agent task allocation problems is the primary objective, it is essential that the decision-making framework is intelligent enough to manage unexpected task load with limited resources. Otherwise, operation effectiveness would drastically plummet with overloaded agents facing unforeseen risks. In this work, we present a decision-making framework for multi-agent teams to learn task allocation with the consideration of load management through decentralized reinforcement learning, where idling is encouraged and unnecessary resource usage is avoided. We illustrate the effect of load management on team performance and explore agent behaviors in example scenarios. Furthermore, a measure of agent importance in collaboration is developed to infer team resilience when facing handling potential overload situations.
