Multi-agent planning with high-level human guidance
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Accepted version
Author(s)
Wu, Feng
Zilberstein, Shlomo
Jennings, Nicholas R
Type
Conference Paper
Abstract
Planning and coordination of multiple agents in the presence of uncertainty and noisy sensors is extremely hard. A human operator who observes a multi-agent team can provide valuable guidance to the team based on her superior ability to interpret observations and assess the overall situation. We propose an extension of decentralized POMDPs that allows such human guidance to be factored into the planning and execution processes. Human guidance in our framework consists of intuitive high-level commands that the agents must translate into a suitable joint plan that is sensitive to what they know from local observations. The result is a framework that allows multi-agent systems to benefit from the complex strategic thinking of a human supervising them. We evaluate this approach on several common benchmark problems and show that it can lead to dramatic improvement in performance.
Date Issued
2021-02-14
Date Acceptance
2021-02-01
Citation
2021, pp.182-198
ISBN
9783030693213
ISSN
0302-9743
Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Start Page
182
End Page
198
Copyright Statement
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021. The final publication is available at Springer via https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69322-0_12
Identifier
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-030-69322-0_12
Source
PRIMA 2020: Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems
Subjects
Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing
Publication Status
Published
Start Date
2020-11-18
Finish Date
2020-11-20
Coverage Spatial
Nagoya, Japan
Date Publish Online
2021-02-14