Contextually Aware Intelligent Control Agents for Heterogeneous Swarms

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2211.12560v1
• Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2022 20:25:59 GMT
• Title: Contextually Aware Intelligent Control Agents for Heterogeneous Swarms
• Authors: Adam Hepworth, Aya Hussein, Darryn Reid, Hussein Abbass
• Abstract summary: An emerging challenge in swarm shepherding research is to design effective and efficient artificial intelligence algorithms. We propose a methodology to design a context-aware swarm-control intelligent agent. We demonstrate successful shepherding in both homogeneous and heterogeneous swarms.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: An emerging challenge in swarm shepherding research is to design effective and efficient artificial intelligence algorithms that maintain a low-computational ceiling while increasing the swarm's abilities to operate in diverse contexts. We propose a methodology to design a context-aware swarm-control intelligent agent. The intelligent control agent (shepherd) first uses swarm metrics to recognise the type of swarm it interacts with to then select a suitable parameterisation from its behavioural library for that particular swarm type. The design principle of our methodology is to increase the situation awareness (i.e. information contents) of the control agent without sacrificing the low-computational cost necessary for efficient swarm control. We demonstrate successful shepherding in both homogeneous and heterogeneous swarms.

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