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GLocal: A Hybrid Approach to the Multi-Agent Mission Re-Planning Problem
Aarhus University, Digit, Dep. of Elect. and Comp. Eng., Denmark.
Mälardalen University, School of Innovation, Design and Engineering, Embedded Systems.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-9051-929x
Aarhus University, Digit, Dep. of Elect. and Comp. Eng., Denmark.
Mälardalen University, School of Innovation, Design and Engineering, Embedded Systems.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-1364-8127
2023 (English)In: IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence, SSCI, IEEE, 2023, p. 1696-1703Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

Multi-agent systems can be prone to failures during the execution of a mission, depending on different circumstances, such as the harshness of the environment they are deployed in. As a result, initially devised plans for completing a mission may no longer be feasible, and a re-planning process needs to take place to re-allocate any pending tasks. There are two main approaches to solve the re-planning problem (i) global re-planning techniques using a centralized planner that will redo the task allocation with the updated world state and (ii) decentralized approaches that will focus on the local plan reparation, i.e., the re-allocation of those tasks initially assigned to the failed robots, better suited to a dynamic environment and less computationally expensive. In this paper, we propose a hybrid approach, named GLocal, that combines both strategies to exploit the benefits of both, while limiting their respective drawbacks. GLocal was compared to a planner-only, and an agent-only approach, under different conditions. We show that GLocal produces shorter mission make-spans as the number of tasks and failed agents increases, while also balancing the tradeoff between the number of messages exchanged and the number of requests to the planner.

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IEEE, 2023. p. 1696-1703
Keywords [en]
Autonomous Agents, Centralized Planning, Decentralized Planning, Multi-Agent Systems
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Computer Sciences
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URN: urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-65793DOI: 10.1109/SSCI52147.2023.10371893Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85182927382ISBN: 9781665430654 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:mdh-65793DiVA, id: diva2:1833071
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2023 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence, SSCI 2023, Mexico City, Mexico, 5-8 December, 2023
Available from: 2024-01-31 Created: 2024-01-31 Last updated: 2024-01-31Bibliographically approved

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