Signaling and Social Learning in Swarms of Robots

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Main Authors: Cazenille, Leo, Toquebiau, Maxime, Lobato-Dauzier, Nicolas, Loi, Alessia, Macabre, Loona, Aubert-Kato, Nathanael, Genot, Anthony, Bredeche, Nicolas
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Published: 2024
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author Cazenille, Leo
Toquebiau, Maxime
Lobato-Dauzier, Nicolas
Loi, Alessia
Macabre, Loona
Aubert-Kato, Nathanael
Genot, Anthony
Bredeche, Nicolas
author_facet Cazenille, Leo
Toquebiau, Maxime
Lobato-Dauzier, Nicolas
Loi, Alessia
Macabre, Loona
Aubert-Kato, Nathanael
Genot, Anthony
Bredeche, Nicolas
contents This paper investigates the role of communication in improving coordination within robot swarms, focusing on a paradigm where learning and execution occur simultaneously in a decentralized manner. We highlight the role communication can play in addressing the credit assignment problem (individual contribution to the overall performance), and how it can be influenced by it. We propose a taxonomy of existing and future works on communication, focusing on information selection and physical abstraction as principal axes for classification: from low-level lossless compression with raw signal extraction and processing to high-level lossy compression with structured communication models. The paper reviews current research from evolutionary robotics, multi-agent (deep) reinforcement learning, language models, and biophysics models to outline the challenges and opportunities of communication in a collective of robots that continuously learn from one another through local message exchanges, illustrating a form of social learning.
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spellingShingle Signaling and Social Learning in Swarms of Robots
Cazenille, Leo
Toquebiau, Maxime
Lobato-Dauzier, Nicolas
Loi, Alessia
Macabre, Loona
Aubert-Kato, Nathanael
Genot, Anthony
Bredeche, Nicolas
Robotics
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Multiagent Systems
This paper investigates the role of communication in improving coordination within robot swarms, focusing on a paradigm where learning and execution occur simultaneously in a decentralized manner. We highlight the role communication can play in addressing the credit assignment problem (individual contribution to the overall performance), and how it can be influenced by it. We propose a taxonomy of existing and future works on communication, focusing on information selection and physical abstraction as principal axes for classification: from low-level lossless compression with raw signal extraction and processing to high-level lossy compression with structured communication models. The paper reviews current research from evolutionary robotics, multi-agent (deep) reinforcement learning, language models, and biophysics models to outline the challenges and opportunities of communication in a collective of robots that continuously learn from one another through local message exchanges, illustrating a form of social learning.
title Signaling and Social Learning in Swarms of Robots
topic Robotics
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Multiagent Systems
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.11616