arXiv:2607.28451cs.ROcs.AI2026-07

让机器感知自身老化,实现更持久可靠的自主运行。

Machines that know they are aging: a framework for hardware-aware autonomous intelligence

论文配图:Machines that know they are aging: a framework for hardware-aware autonomous intelligence
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  • 通过物理退化模型实时监测硬件健康状态
  • 根据剩余能力动态调整推理复杂度与任务优先级
  • 适合太空、深海、医疗植入等高危长时场景

自主系统不可避免地会老化,但其人工智能通常假设硬件始终处于初始状态。电池衰减、传感器漂移、处理器时序误差累积以及内存可靠性下降,导致预期能力与实际能力之间的差距不断增大,可能引发‘无感崩溃’——即任务失败源于长期硬件退化而非单一故障。本文提出老化感知自主智能(AAAI)框架,将硬件健康状况直接融入推理、规划和任务执行过程。AAAI基于三大支柱:硬件自知,利用物理退化模型持续评估电源、传感、内存和计算子系统的健康状态;自适应推理,依据剩余硬件能力动态调整推理复杂度、规划范围和任务优先级;生存导向智能,通过性能优化、资源节约和渐进式降级,在任务目标间分配剩余使用寿命。该框架不依赖新硬件,而是将预测性维护、生命周期管理与硬件感知计算统一为闭环认知架构。我们认为,这种集成对在不可达或安全关键环境中运行的系统至关重要,如空间任务、海洋机器人和可植入医疗设备。通过使机器识别并响应自身老化,AAAI提升了系统韧性,延长了服役寿命,支持更安全、更优雅的任务完成。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Autonomous systems inevitably age, yet their artificial intelligence typically assumes hardware remains in its original condition. Batteries degrade, sensors drift, processors accumulate timing errors, and memory reliability declines, creating a growing mismatch between assumed and actual capability. This can lead to agnostic collapse, where mission failure arises from accumulated hardware degradation rather than a single component fault. We propose Aging-Aware Autonomous Intelligence (AAAI), a framework that integrates hardware health directly into reasoning, planning, and mission execution. AAAI is built on three pillars: hardware self-awareness, which continuously estimates the health of power, sensing, memory, and computation subsystems using physics-of-failure models; self-adaptive reasoning, which adjusts inference complexity, planning horizon, and task priorities according to remaining hardware capability; and survival-centric intelligence, which allocates remaining operational life across mission objectives through performance optimization, resource conservation, and graceful degradation. Rather than introducing new hardware, AAAI unifies prognostics, lifecycle management, and hardware-aware computing into a closed-loop cognitive architecture. We argue that such integration is essential for autonomous systems operating in inaccessible or safety-critical environments, including space missions, marine robotics, and implantable medical devices. By enabling machines to recognize and respond to their own aging, AAAI improves resilience, extends operational lifetime, and supports safer, more graceful mission completion.

自主系统老化感知智能决策可靠性

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