Understanding the Application of Utility Theory in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence: A Survey

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2306.09445v1
• Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2023 18:55:48 GMT
• Title: Understanding the Application of Utility Theory in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence: A Survey
• Authors: Qin Yang and Rui Liu
• Abstract summary: The utility is a unifying concept in economics, game theory, and operations research, even in the Robotics and AI field. This paper introduces a utility-orient needs paradigm to describe and evaluate inter and outer relationships among agents' interactions.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: As a unifying concept in economics, game theory, and operations research, even in the Robotics and AI field, the utility is used to evaluate the level of individual needs, preferences, and interests. Especially for decision-making and learning in multi-agent/robot systems (MAS/MRS), a suitable utility model can guide agents in choosing reasonable strategies to achieve their current needs and learning to cooperate and organize their behaviors, optimizing the system's utility, building stable and reliable relationships, and guaranteeing each group member's sustainable development, similar to the human society. Although these systems' complex, large-scale, and long-term behaviors are strongly determined by the fundamental characteristics of the underlying relationships, there has been less discussion on the theoretical aspects of mechanisms and the fields of applications in Robotics and AI. This paper introduces a utility-orient needs paradigm to describe and evaluate inter and outer relationships among agents' interactions. Then, we survey existing literature in relevant fields to support it and propose several promising research directions along with some open problems deemed necessary for further investigations.

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