提出新框架提升水下无人艇协作效率,降低暴露风险。
Task-Oriented Sensing and Covert Transmissions for Collaborative Multi-AUV Systems

- 基于实际感知信息价值设计分布式协作策略
- 在隐蔽通信约束下提升定位追踪任务效率
- 适合水下隐蔽协同任务的研究与应用
在水下隐蔽协同任务中,自主水下航行器(AUV)难以依赖主动声呐持续获取完整信息,因主动探测和频繁通信会增加暴露风险。因此,AUV主要依赖被动观测,导致局部感知不全、任务效率受限。尽管水下声学通信可缓解信息缺失,但面临长延迟、严重干扰、低可靠性及隐蔽性风险。现有面向通信的多智能体强化学习(MARL)常将通信建模为理想信息流,传统通信优化则聚焦链路级性能,二者均无法准确刻画在真实隐蔽通信条件下感知信息对协作任务的实际贡献。本文提出感知信息价值实现多智能体强化学习(SVR-MARL)框架,利用实际感知信息表征信息对协作任务的效用,并在真实通信与隐蔽约束下学习分布式协作策略。通过隐蔽多AUV协同定位与跟踪的案例研究,验证了该框架在提升协作效率的同时减少不必要的通信与暴露风险的潜力。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
In underwater covert cooperative missions, autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) often cannot rely on active sonar to continuously obtain complete information, since active sensing and frequent communications increase the risk of exposure. As a result, AUVs primarily rely on passive observation, an approach that yields incomplete local perception and limited task efficiency. Although underwater acoustic communications can mitigate this limitation through information sharing, they are simultaneously constrained by long delays, severe interference, low reliability, and the risk of covert exposure. Existing communications-oriented multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) studies often model communication as an ideal information flow, whereas traditional communication optimization primarily focuses on link-level performance. However, both are insufficient to characterize the actual contribution of perceptual information to cooperative tasks under realistic conditions of covert physical communications. This paper proposes a Sensed Information Value Realization Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (SVR-MARL) framework that leverages practical information to characterize the utility of information for cooperative tasks and learns distributed cooperative policies under realistic communication and covert constraints. Through a case study of covert multi-AUV cooperative localization and tracking, the potential of the proposed framework to improve collaborative task efficiency while reducing unnecessary communication and exposure risks is demonstrated.
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