Deep Reinforcement Multi-agent Learning framework for Information Gathering with Local Gaussian Processes for Water Monitoring

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Main Authors: Luis, Samuel Yanes, Shutin, Dmitriy, Gómez, Juan Marchal, Reina, Daniel Gutiérrez, Marín, Sergio Toral
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author Luis, Samuel Yanes
Shutin, Dmitriy
Gómez, Juan Marchal
Reina, Daniel Gutiérrez
Marín, Sergio Toral
author_facet Luis, Samuel Yanes
Shutin, Dmitriy
Gómez, Juan Marchal
Reina, Daniel Gutiérrez
Marín, Sergio Toral
contents The conservation of hydrological resources involves continuously monitoring their contamination. A multi-agent system composed of autonomous surface vehicles is proposed in this paper to efficiently monitor the water quality. To achieve a safe control of the fleet, the fleet policy should be able to act based on measurements and to the the fleet state. It is proposed to use Local Gaussian Processes and Deep Reinforcement Learning to jointly obtain effective monitoring policies. Local Gaussian processes, unlike classical global Gaussian processes, can accurately model the information in a dissimilar spatial correlation which captures more accurately the water quality information. A Deep convolutional policy is proposed, that bases the decisions on the observation on the mean and variance of this model, by means of an information gain reward. Using a Double Deep Q-Learning algorithm, agents are trained to minimize the estimation error in a safe manner thanks to a Consensus-based heuristic. Simulation results indicate an improvement of up to 24% in terms of the mean absolute error with the proposed models. Also, training results with 1-3 agents indicate that our proposed approach returns 20% and 24% smaller average estimation errors for, respectively, monitoring water quality variables and monitoring algae blooms, as compared to state-of-the-art approaches
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spellingShingle Deep Reinforcement Multi-agent Learning framework for Information Gathering with Local Gaussian Processes for Water Monitoring
Luis, Samuel Yanes
Shutin, Dmitriy
Gómez, Juan Marchal
Reina, Daniel Gutiérrez
Marín, Sergio Toral
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
The conservation of hydrological resources involves continuously monitoring their contamination. A multi-agent system composed of autonomous surface vehicles is proposed in this paper to efficiently monitor the water quality. To achieve a safe control of the fleet, the fleet policy should be able to act based on measurements and to the the fleet state. It is proposed to use Local Gaussian Processes and Deep Reinforcement Learning to jointly obtain effective monitoring policies. Local Gaussian processes, unlike classical global Gaussian processes, can accurately model the information in a dissimilar spatial correlation which captures more accurately the water quality information. A Deep convolutional policy is proposed, that bases the decisions on the observation on the mean and variance of this model, by means of an information gain reward. Using a Double Deep Q-Learning algorithm, agents are trained to minimize the estimation error in a safe manner thanks to a Consensus-based heuristic. Simulation results indicate an improvement of up to 24% in terms of the mean absolute error with the proposed models. Also, training results with 1-3 agents indicate that our proposed approach returns 20% and 24% smaller average estimation errors for, respectively, monitoring water quality variables and monitoring algae blooms, as compared to state-of-the-art approaches
title Deep Reinforcement Multi-agent Learning framework for Information Gathering with Local Gaussian Processes for Water Monitoring
topic Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.04631