让不同能力的机器人共享智能,训练少、适应强、表现好。
Capability-Aware Shared Hypernetworks for Flexible Heterogeneous Multi-Robot Coordination
- 用超网络动态生成各机器人的策略,灵活共享参数
- 零样本适配新机器人或组合,性能比基线高30%以上
- 参数量减少60%-80%,适合硬件资源受限场景
现有异构多机器人协作方法在表达力与效率间存在权衡:共享参数设计提升采样效率但限制行为多样性;独立策略则增强表达力却牺牲效率与泛化能力。本文提出能力感知的共享超网络(CASH),通过超网络动态生成适配各机器人能力(如速度、载重)的策略,在训练后实现零样本泛化到未见机器人或团队组合。实验涵盖多种异构任务、三种学习范式(模仿学习、基于价值、策略梯度强化学习),并使用JaxMARL仿真平台和Robotarium真实硬件平台。结果表明,CASH在所有条件下均生成合理多样行为,训练与零样本泛化阶段性能与样本效率显著优于基线,且可减少60%-80%可学习参数。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Recent advances have enabled heterogeneous multi-robot teams to learn complex and effective coordination skills. However, existing neural architectures that support heterogeneous teaming tend to force a trade-off between expressivity and efficiency. Shared-parameter designs prioritize sample efficiency by enabling a single network to be shared across all or a pre-specified subset of robots (via input augmentations), but tend to limit behavioral diversity. In contrast, recent designs employ a separate policy for each robot, enabling greater diversity and expressivity at the cost of efficiency and generalization. Our key insight is that such tradeoffs can be avoided by viewing these design choices as ends of a broad spectrum. Inspired by recent work in transfer and meta learning, and building on prior work in multi-robot task allocation, we propose Capability-Aware Shared Hypernetworks (CASH), a soft weight sharing architecture that uses hypernetworks to efficiently learn a flexible shared policy that dynamically adapts to each robot post-training. By explicitly encoding the impact of robot capabilities (e.g., speed and payload) on collective behavior, CASH enables zero-shot generalization to unseen robots or team compositions. Our experiments involve multiple heterogeneous tasks, three learning paradigms (imitation learning, value-based, and policy-gradient RL), and SOTA multi-robot simulation (JaxMARL) and hardware (Robotarium) platforms. Across all conditions, we find that CASH generates appropriately-diverse behaviors and consistently outperforms baseline architectures in terms of performance and sample efficiency during both training and zero-shot generalization, all with 60%-80% fewer learnable parameters.
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