Collective Decision-Making with Bayesian Robots in Dynamic Environments

Pfister, Kai; Hamann, Heiko

Collective Decision-Making with Bayesian Robots in Dynamic Environments

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2022

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Pfister, Kai

Hamann, Heiko

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2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). - Piscataway, NJ : IEEE, 2022. - pp. 7245-7250. - ISSN 2153-0858. - eISSN 2153-0866. - ISBN 978-1-66547-927-1

Abstract

Collective decision-making enables self-organizing robot swarms to act autonomously on a swarm level and is essential to coordinate their actions as a whole. When robots only share and communicate information locally a distributed and decentralized approach is required. In a previous paper [4], an efficient method based on a distributed Bayesian algorithm was created to distinguish a binary environment. We extended it to have the capability of dealing with dynamic environments. Therefore, it must avoid global lock-in states. In many realistic applications the robot swarm needs to adapt to (collectively) measurable changes at runtime by revising previous collective decisions. The trade-off between decision-making speed and readiness to revise previous decisions is a seemingly unavoidable challenge. We present our extension of the former approach and study how this trade-off can efficiently be balanced.

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004 Computer Science

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IROS 2022 : IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Oct 23, 2022 - Oct 27, 2022, Kyoto, Japan

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PFISTER, Kai, Heiko HAMANN, 2022. Collective Decision-Making with Bayesian Robots in Dynamic Environments. IROS 2022 : IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. Kyoto, Japan, Oct 23, 2022 - Oct 27, 2022. In: 2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). Piscataway, NJ:IEEE, pp. 7245-7250. ISSN 2153-0858. eISSN 2153-0866. ISBN 978-1-66547-927-1. Available under: doi: 10.1109/IROS47612.2022.9982019

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@inproceedings{Pfister2022Colle-66285,
  year={2022},
  doi={10.1109/IROS47612.2022.9982019},
  title={Collective Decision-Making with Bayesian Robots in Dynamic Environments},
  isbn={978-1-66547-927-1},
  issn={2153-0858},
  publisher={IEEE},
  address={Piscataway, NJ},
  booktitle={2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)},
  pages={7245--7250},
  author={Pfister, Kai and Hamann, Heiko}
}

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