无通信多无人机在预算限制下,靠观察队友轨迹自主探索
Dec-MARVEL: Decentralized Multi-Agent Exploration without Communication under Budget Constraints

- 无人机通过观察队友轨迹间接协作,无需通信或共享地图
- 720米预算下8机团队探索成功率100%,优于最强基线99%
- 适合资源受限、通信不稳定的野外勘探场景
多无人机探索常受通信不可靠、视场有限(如轻量机载相机)和有限行程预算制约,需确保每架无人机保留足够返程预算。我们提出Dec-MARVEL,一种去中心化、预算感知的无通信探索框架,支持定向感知。各机器人不交换地图、目标或消息,而是通过偶然观测到的队友轨迹实现协调。图注意力策略网络融合局部前沿几何、队友运动与预算特征,选择可行返程的航点-朝向动作。训练采用分阶段条件批评者、仅训练用的任务导向特权批评者及混合式预算课程。在覆盖三种团队规模(2、4、8架)和三种行程预算(720、800、1024米)的900次独立测试中,Dec-MARVEL在所有九种配置下均达到最高或并列最高探索率,并实现最低感知重叠。在最紧的720米预算下,2、4、8机团队成功率达53%、94%、100%,优于最强基线的37%、83%、99%。物理机器人实验验证了其从仿真到现实的成功迁移与实际部署能力。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Multi-UAV exploration is often constrained by unreliable communication, limited field-of-view sensing (e.g., lightweight onboard camera), and finite travel budgets that require each robot to reserve enough budget to return to its base. We present Dec-MARVEL, a decentralized budget-aware exploration framework for communication-free teams with directional sensing. Rather than exchanging maps, goals, or messages, each robot coordinates through its incidental observations: any teammate trajectory within its field of view serves as a coordination signal. A graph-attention actor fuses local frontier geometry, teammate motion, and budget features to select return-feasible waypoint-heading actions. The actor is trained with phase-conditioned critics, a training-only task-oriented privileged critic, and a mixture-based budget curriculum. Across 900 held-out trials spanning three team sizes (2, 4, 8 robots) and three travel budgets (720, 800, 1024 meters) against four baselines, Dec-MARVEL achieves the highest or tied-highest exploration rate and lowest sensing overlap across all nine team-size budget configurations. Under our tightest 720m budget, it reaches 53%, 94%, and 100% success for 2, 4, and 8 robots, versus 37%, 83%, and 99% for the strongest baseline. Physical-robot experiments demonstrate successful sim-to-real transfer and real-world deployment of Dec-MARVEL.
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