Collective Decision Making in Communication-Constrained Environments

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العنوان: Collective Decision Making in Communication-Constrained Environments
المؤلفون: Kelly, Thomas G., Soorati, Mohammad Divband, Zauner, Klaus-Peter, Ramchurn, Sarvapali D., Tarapore, Danesh
سنة النشر: 2022
مصطلحات موضوعية: Computer Science - Robotics, Computer Science - Multiagent Systems
الوصف: One of the main tasks for autonomous robot swarms is to collectively decide on the best available option. Achieving that requires a high quality communication between the agents that may not be always available in a real world environment. In this paper we introduce the communication-constrained collective decision-making problem where some areas of the environment limit the agents' ability to communicate, either by reducing success rate or blocking the communication channels. We propose a decentralised algorithm for mapping environmental features for robot swarms as well as improving collective decision making in communication-limited environments without prior knowledge of the communication landscape. Our results show that making a collective aware of the communication environment can improve the speed of convergence in the presence of communication limitations, at least 3 times faster, without sacrificing accuracy.
Comment: 6 pages, 7 figures, accepted to the 2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2022)
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/2207.09564
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.2207.09564
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv