arXiv:2501.03907cs.RO2025-01被引 1

让机器人通过心理推理实现无通信协作,提升复杂任务效率。

Implicit Coordination using Active Epistemic Inference for Multi-Robot Systems

  • 用心智理论实现高阶推理,跨视角理解其他机器人的观测与意图。
  • 在无通信环境下仍能完成任务,性能优于传统贪心和一阶推理方法。
  • 适合缺乏通信的复杂场景,如深海探测、太空任务等多机器人系统。

多机器人系统(MRS)在环境监测、水下巡检和太空任务等复杂任务中具有显著优势。然而,在这些领域中,通信故障或缺乏通信基础设施仍是重大挑战。现有研究多假设系统可维持近距通信,但无法应对完全无通信、通信不可靠或存在安全风险的情况。部分方法虽采用非通信预测,但仅支持基于自身观测的一阶推理。本文提出一种基于心智理论(ToM)的框架,通过高阶推理,使机器人能从他人视角推断其观测信念。该框架包含两个阶段:一是运行时利用主动推理动态调整计划,表达意图并推理自身及他人的信念;二是分层认知规划框架,迭代分析当前任务状态。实验与仿真验证表明,该方法优于贪婪策略和一阶推理,适用于异构机器人系统。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

A Multi-robot system (MRS) provides significant advantages for intricate tasks such as environmental monitoring, underwater inspections, and space missions. However, addressing potential communication failures or the lack of communication infrastructure in these fields remains a challenge. A significant portion of MRS research presumes that the system can maintain communication with proximity constraints, but this approach does not solve situations where communication is either non-existent, unreliable, or poses a security risk. Some approaches tackle this issue using predictions about other robots while not communicating, but these methods generally only permit agents to utilize first-order reasoning, which involves reasoning based purely on their own observations. In contrast, to deal with this problem, our proposed framework utilizes Theory of Mind (ToM), employing higher-order reasoning by shifting a robot's perspective to reason about a belief of others observations. Our approach has two main phases: i) an efficient runtime plan adaptation using active inference to signal intentions and reason about a robot's own belief and the beliefs of others in the system, and ii) a hierarchical epistemic planning framework to iteratively reason about the current MRS mission state. The proposed framework outperforms greedy and first-order reasoning approaches and is validated using simulations and experiments with heterogeneous robotic systems.

多机器人心智理论无通信协作高阶推理

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