多机器人协作行为树规划,提升任务执行效率与鲁棒性
MRBTP: Efficient Multi-Robot Behavior Tree Planning and Collaboration
- 跨树扩展协调异构动作,保留备份结构确保执行鲁棒性
- 在仓库与日常服务场景中验证,支持同质与异质机器人团队
- 可集成大模型预生成长时序子树,显著加速规划过程
多机器人任务规划与协作是机器人领域的关键挑战。尽管行为树(BTs)已被广泛用于单机器人控制且具备可规划性,但因需协调多样化的动作空间,多机器人行为树规划算法仍面临复杂性难题。本文提出多机器人行为树规划(MRBTP)算法,理论保证了正确性与完备性。MRBTP通过跨树扩展机制,协调不同行为树间的异构动作以达成团队目标;对同质动作则保留各树间备份结构,并通过意图共享避免重复执行。该算法可生成同质与异质机器人团队的行为树,进一步在具备大语言模型(LLMs)时,引入可选插件,由预训练模型推理各机器人相关动作并预先规划形成长时序子树,大幅提高规划速度与协作效率。我们在仓储管理与日常生活服务场景中评估该算法,结果表明其在多种环境下均具备良好鲁棒性与执行效率,且预训练大模型能有效生成特定任务子树。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Multi-robot task planning and collaboration are critical challenges in robotics. While Behavior Trees (BTs) have been established as a popular control architecture and are plannable for a single robot, the development of effective multi-robot BT planning algorithms remains challenging due to the complexity of coordinating diverse action spaces. We propose the Multi-Robot Behavior Tree Planning (MRBTP) algorithm, with theoretical guarantees of both soundness and completeness. MRBTP features cross-tree expansion to coordinate heterogeneous actions across different BTs to achieve the team's goal. For homogeneous actions, we retain backup structures among BTs to ensure robustness and prevent redundant execution through intention sharing. While MRBTP is capable of generating BTs for both homogeneous and heterogeneous robot teams, its efficiency can be further improved. We then propose an optional plugin for MRBTP when Large Language Models (LLMs) are available to reason goal-related actions for each robot. These relevant actions can be pre-planned to form long-horizon subtrees, significantly enhancing the planning speed and collaboration efficiency of MRBTP. We evaluate our algorithm in warehouse management and everyday service scenarios. Results demonstrate MRBTP's robustness and execution efficiency under varying settings, as well as the ability of the pre-trained LLM to generate effective task-specific subtrees for MRBTP.
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