Title
A hierarchical training method of generating collective foraging behavior for a robotic swarm
Abstract
Swarm robotics is a field in which multiple robots coordinate their collective behavior autonomously to accomplish a given task without any form of centralized control. Training a robotic swarm to complete a multi-objective task under sparse rewards is a challenging task in reinforcement learning (RL). This research has applied a hierarchical training method for the RL training process to address the multi-objective task with sparse rewards. We conduct experiments where a robotic swarm has to accomplish a complex collective foraging problem using computer simulations. The results show that the proposed approach leads to perform more effectively than a conventional RL approach.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1007/s10015-021-00714-x
ARTIFICIAL LIFE AND ROBOTICS
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Robotic swarm, Reinforcement learning, Task partitioning
Journal
27
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
1
1433-5298
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Boyin Jin100.34
Yupeng Liang200.34
Ziyao Han300.34
Motoaki Hiraga422.41
Kazuhiro Ohkura500.34