多机器人协同任务分配,兼顾时间与资源约束,提升整体执行效率。
Learning and Optimizing the Efficacy of Spatio-Temporal Task Allocation under Temporal and Resource Constraints
- 通过能力-效能映射建模任务表现,实现精细化分配
- 提出E-ITAGS算法,联合优化任务分配与路径规划,满足时间预算
- 采用自适应学习机制,高效获取效能数据,适合应急响应等复杂场景
复杂多机器人任务常需异构团队协同优化任务分配、调度与路径规划,在严格约束下提升整体性能。本文提出新型问题框架STEAM(时空效能优化多机器人分配),基于机器人能力(如载重、速度)建模,但突破传统二值成败模型,引入能力-效能映射来刻画任务分配对性能的影响。该框架支持时空约束,包括用户指定的最大完成时间(即最大完工时间)。为此,本文提出新算法E-ITAGS,通过交错进行任务分配、调度与路径规划,同时优化任务效能并满足时间预算。针对能力-效能映射难以预设的问题,E-ITAGS集成可实现性感知的主动学习模块,显式考虑实际可用机器人组合的可行性。实验验证了其子优性边界,仿真与应急响应实测表明,相较基线方法,E-ITAGS生成的分配方案更具效能,且满足资源与时空约束。主动学习策略样本效率高,实现了数据与计算效率间的合理权衡。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Complex multi-robot missions often require heterogeneous teams to jointly optimize task allocation, scheduling, and path planning to improve team performance under strict constraints. We formalize these complexities into a new class of problems, dubbed Spatio-Temporal Efficacy-optimized Allocation for Multi-robot systems (STEAM). STEAM builds upon trait-based frameworks that model robots using their capabilities (e.g., payload and speed), but goes beyond the typical binary success-failure model by explicitly modeling the efficacy of allocations as trait-efficacy maps. These maps encode how the aggregated capabilities assigned to a task determine performance. Further, STEAM accommodates spatio-temporal constraints, including a user-specified time budget (i.e., maximum makespan). To solve STEAM problems, we contribute a novel algorithm named Efficacy-optimized Incremental Task Allocation Graph Search (E-ITAGS) that simultaneously optimizes task performance and respects time budgets by interleaving task allocation, scheduling, and path planning. Motivated by the fact that trait-efficacy maps are difficult, if not impossible, to specify, E-ITAGS efficiently learns them using a realizability-aware active learning module. Our approach is realizability-aware since it explicitly accounts for the fact that not all combinations of traits are realizable by the robots available during learning. Further, we derive experimentally-validated bounds on E-ITAGS' suboptimality with respect to efficacy. Detailed numerical simulations and experiments using an emergency response domain demonstrate that E-ITAGS generates allocations of higher efficacy compared to baselines, while respecting resource and spatio-temporal constraints. We also show that our active learning approach is sample efficient and establishes a principled tradeoff between data and computational efficiency.
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