Cooperative Informative Sensing for Monitoring Dynamic Indoor Environments via Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2604.23179v1
• Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2026 07:20:15 GMT
• Title: Cooperative Informative Sensing for Monitoring Dynamic Indoor Environments via Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
• Abstract summary: We formulate cooperative active observation as a decentralized control problem in which multiple robots adjust their motion to directly optimize monitoring accuracy under partial observability.<n>We propose a learning-based framework for cooperative policies from decentralized observations using multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL), supported by an architecture that handles variable numbers of humans and temporal dependencies.
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• Abstract: Monitoring human activity in indoor environments is important for applications such as facility management, safety assessment, and space utilization analysis. While mobile robot teams offer the potential to actively improve observation quality, existing multi-robot monitoring and active perception approaches typically rely on coverage or visitation based objectives that are weakly aligned with the accuracy requirements of human-centric monitoring tasks. In this work, we formulate cooperative active observation as a decentralized control problem in which multiple robots adjust their motion to directly optimize monitoring accuracy under partial observability. We propose a learning-based framework for cooperative policies from decentralized observations using multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL), supported by an architecture that handles variable numbers of humans and temporal dependencies. Simulation results across diverse indoor environments and monitoring tasks show that the proposed approach consistently outperforms classical coverage, persistent monitoring, and learning-free multi-robot baselines, while remaining robust to changes in the number of observed humans.

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