Paper Info
Title
Empowerment As A Generic Utility Function For Agents In A Simple Team Sport Simulation
Abstract
Players in team sports cooperate in a coordinated manner to achieve common goals. Automated players in academic and commercial team sports simulations have traditionally been driven by complex externally motivated value functions with heuristics based on knowledge of game tactics and strategy. Empowerment is an information-theoretic measure of an agent's potential to influence its environment, which has been shown to provide a useful intrinsic value function, without the need for external goals and motivation, for agents in single agent models. In this paper we expand on the concept of empowerment to propose the concept of team empowerment as an intrinsic, generic utility function for cooperating agents. We show that agents motivated by team empowerment exhibit recognizable team behaviors in a simple team sports simulation based on Ultimate Frisbee.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1007/978-3-319-66471-2_5
INTERACTIVE COLLABORATIVE ROBOTICS (ICR 2017)
Keywords
Field
DocType
Empowerment, Intrinsic motivation, Artificial intelligence, Information theory
Intrinsic motivation,Knowledge management,Heuristics,Team sport,Engineering,Ultimate frisbee,Instrumental and intrinsic value,Empowerment
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
10459
0302-9743
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Marcus Clements100.34
Daniel Polani254970.25