断続通信下での分散マルチエージェント探索のためのエントロピーゲート型信念調整
Entropy-Gated Belief Coordination for Decentralized Multi-Agent Search Under Intermittent Communication
断続的な通信環境で複数エージェントが協調して目標を探索する際、探索中は信念統合をスキップし活用時のみ統合するエントロピーゲート手法を提案し、従来の融合法より高い信念品質を達成した。
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著者: Mohamed Abdelnaby, Kevin Leahy
分類: cs.RO
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We study decentralized multi-agent target search where homogeneous agents communicate intermittently at Poisson-distributed times. Standard unconditional belief fusion wastes communication opportunities by synchronizing agents during high-entropy exploration, when diverse independent beliefs provide better coverage than a premature consensus. We introduce \emph{entropy-gated belief coordination}, in which agents skip fusion while their collective entropy ratio exceeds a threshold~\(θ\) and merge only during exploitation, consistent with the bifurcation structure of nonlinear opinion dynamics and the submodular structure of the per-step information gain objective. We further derive \(\Istep(α,β)\), the expected mutual information per observation step between two agents' binary sensors, as an interpretable, communication-free measure of sensor informativeness that motivates the gating design and guides system-level analysis. Experiments across 103{,}680 trials (nine grid sizes up to \(100{\times}100\), Poisson communication timing, four target movement patterns) show that the Entropy-Gated Trust-Decay Planner (\textsc{EG-TDP}), which adds a detection-probability planner switch in exploitation mode, achieves mean belief quality \(\bar{Q}=0.300\) (mean belief mass at the true target cell, averaged across all trials and steps), a \(58.9\%\) gain over arithmetic mean and a \(37.4\%\) gain over visit-weighted fusion. On representative configurations, EG-TDP also outperforms a joint-Bayesian reference that uses all agents'~observations at every step, despite operating under random intermittent contact only.