用物理约束框架统一建模机器人蜂群多阶段涌现行为。
Physics-Informed Modeling and Control of Emergent Behaviors in Robot Swarms

- 构建宏观密度场与微观运动的物理耦合模型,实现多阶段行为模拟。
- 在觅食、编队导航等任务中成功生成分阶段涌现行为,性能稳定。
- 适合研究群体智能、自主机器人系统及可解释控制的学者使用。
机器人蜂群可通过局部感知、有限通信和去中心化决策表现出一致的集体行为,但当行为跨越多个阶段时,建模与控制仍具挑战。本文提出PhySwarm,一种物理信息驱动的微-宏框架,将多阶段蜂群涌现行为建模为受物理约束的密度场演化与可执行机器人运动的耦合过程。宏观层面采用多相输运-扩散-反应模型(Macro-ADR),描述依赖于阶段的蜂群密度演化,包括定向传输、基于扩散的空间调节及行为相变;微观层面通过确定性运动模型(Micro-EDM)实现上述机制,包含势场输运、密度梯度补偿以及速率或事件触发的相位切换。神经物理控制器(NPC)将局部观测与时间记忆映射为有界物理参数,通过强化学习与物理信息神经网络(PINN)目标联合训练,兼顾任务奖励、宏观密度残差与微观运动一致性约束。在若干概念验证任务中——包括路径引导觅食、可重构编队导航和角色自适应搜救——证明PhySwarm可在统一物理框架内生成显著的多阶段涌现行为。学习得到的密度场与物理参数提供了关于输运、扩散与反应如何协同调控多阶段蜂群组织的可解释证据。结果确立了学习、解释与控制机器人蜂群涌现行为的物理信息路径。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Robot swarms can exhibit coherent collective behaviors through local perception, limited communication and decentralized decision-making, yet modeling and controlling such emergence remains challenging when behaviors unfold over multiple phases. Here we introduce PhySwarm, a physics-informed micro--macro framework that represents multi-stage swarm emergence as physically constrained density-field evolution coupled to executable robot motion. At the macroscopic level, a multi-phase advection--diffusion--reaction model (Macro-ADR) describes phase-dependent swarm-density evolution through directed transport, diffusion-based spatial regulation and behavioral phase transitions. At the microscopic level, an equivalent deterministic motion model (Micro-EDM) realizes these mechanisms through potential-field advection, density-gradient compensation and rate- or event-gated phase switching. A neural-physics controller (NPC) maps local observations and temporal memory to bounded physical parameters, and is trained with a reinforcement learning--PINN objective that combines task rewards with macro-scale density residuals and micro-scale motion-consistency constraints. In several proof-of-concept swarm missions -- including trail-guided foraging, formation-reconfigurable navigation and role-adaptive search and rescue -- we demonstrate that PhySwarm can generate distinct multi-stage emergent behaviors within a unified physics-informed modeling framework. The learned density fields and physical parameters provide interpretable evidence of how advection, diffusion and reaction jointly regulate multi-stage swarm organization. These results establish a physics-informed route for learning, interpreting and controlling emergent behaviors in robot swarms.
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