Title
Learning to role-switch in multi-robot systems
Abstract
We present an approach that uses Q-learning on individual robotic agents, for coordinating a mission- tasked team of robots in a complex scenario. To reduce the size of the state space, actions are grouped into sets of related behaviors called roles and represented as behavioral assemblages. A role is a Finite State Automata such as Forager, where the behaviors and their sequencing for finding objects, collecting them, and returning them are already encoded and do not have to be relearned. Each robot starts out with the same set of possible roles to play, te same perceptual hardware for coordination, and no contact other than perception regarding other members of the team. Over the course of training, a team of Q-learning robots will converge to solutions that best the performance of a well-designed handcrafted homogeneous team.
Year
DOI
Venue
2003
10.1109/ROBOT.2003.1242005
ICRA
Keywords
Field
DocType
finite automata,intelligent robots,learning (artificial intelligence),multi-robot systems,Q-learning,finite state automata,handcrafted homogeneous team,knowledge based systems,multiple robot systems,robot agents,role switch learning,state space size
Q-learning,Knowledge-based systems,Finite-state machine,Control engineering,Artificial intelligence,Control system,Engineering,Robot,Perception,State space,Robotics
Conference
Volume
Issue
ISSN
2
1
1050-4729
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
11
0.74
15
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Eric Martinson112412.18
Ronald C. Arkin22921564.82