Facilitating cooperative missions through information sharing in heterogeneous agent teams
Darshan Nayak, Abhijot Bedi, David Degbor, Shelley Zhang, Eugene Chabot · 2024
Sharing information and using the information in decision-making are important in multi-agent systems (MAS) teamwork. Effective sharing and using information among agents in a dynamic environment, such as a disaster response scenario, can lead to more successful cooperative missions. This paper discusses information sharing mechanisms among homogeneous and heterogeneous agents as well. We also present different decision-making mechanisms using shared information. These mechanisms to share and use information have been implemented with different platoon agents in a rescue simulation testbed from Robocop Rescue Simulation League (RRSL). Experiments have been conducted with various scenarios to examine the performance score difference with these information-sharing and using mechanisms compared with the baseline approach in rescue agents’ decision-making under different configurations.