arXiv:2410.16444cs.ROcs.SY2024-10被引 2

用简单机器人+仿真模拟,让蜂群行为自然涌现。

Agent-Based Emulation for Deploying Robot Swarm Behaviors

  • 从下往上构建,用简单机器人和低精度仿真探索自组织行为
  • 通过真实-仿真-真实闭环,复现已有行为并意外发现新行为
  • 适合想低成本验证群体智能的机器人研究者

尽管已有大量研究,机器人蜂群仍难以解决实际问题,主要因多智能体系统中编排群体行为难度大。传统自上而下的方法常需复杂、高成本的机器人,限制实用性。本文提出一种自下而上的方法,采用具身化代理建模与仿真(Agent-Based Embodiment and Emulation),强调使用简单机器人,并识别能自然引发自组织集体行为的条件。通过蜂群的现实-仿真-现实(RSRS)流程,紧密整合真实实验与仿真,既复现了文献中的已知蜂群行为,也意外发现了一种新涌现行为,且不刻意缩小仿真到现实的差距。本研究构建了平衡物理实验与耗时实验设置的代理式具身与仿真流程,利用低保真轻量级仿真支持假设生成,指导物理实验。我们通过重现两个文献中的已知行为,验证了该方法的有效性,并展示了一个意外发现的行为。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Despite significant research, robotic swarms have yet to be useful in solving real-world problems, largely due to the difficulty of creating and controlling swarming behaviors in multi-agent systems. Traditional top-down approaches in which a desired emergent behavior is produced often require complex, resource-heavy robots, limiting their practicality. This paper introduces a bottom-up approach by employing an Embodied Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation approach, emphasizing the use of simple robots and identifying conditions that naturally lead to self-organized collective behaviors. Using the Reality-to-Simulation-to-Reality for Swarms (RSRS) process, we tightly integrate real-world experiments with simulations to reproduce known swarm behaviors as well as discovering a novel emergent behavior without aiming to eliminate or even reduce the sim2real gap. This paper presents the development of an Agent-Based Embodiment and Emulation process that balances the importance of running physical swarming experiments and the prohibitively time-consuming process of even setting up and running a single experiment with 20+ robots by leveraging low-fidelity lightweight simulations to enable hypothesis-formation to guide physical experiments. We demonstrate the usefulness of our methods by emulating two known behaviors from the literature and show a third behavior `discovered' by accident.

机器人蜂群仿真模拟自组织具身智能

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