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Jun, 2015

Hierarchical Transfer Learning in Heterogeneous Multi-agent Systems

Transactions of the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers
  • KONO Hitoshi
  • ,
  • MURATA Yuta
  • ,
  • KAMIMURA Akiya
  • ,
  • TOMITA Kohji
  • ,
  • SUZUKI Tsuyoshi

Volume
51
Number
6
First page
409
Last page
420
Language
Japanese
Publishing type
Research paper (scientific journal)
DOI
10.9746/sicetr.51.409
Publisher
The Society of Instrument and Control Engineers

This paper presents a framework of the hierarchical transfer learning (HTL) for a heterogeneous multi-robot transfer learning method utilizing of cloud-computing resources. A multi-agent robot system (MARS) that utilizes reinforcement learning and transfer learning methods has recently been deployed in real-world situations. In MARS, autonomous agents obtain behaviors autonomously through multi-agent reinforcement learning and the transfer learning method enables the reuse of the knowledge of other robots' behavior, such as for cooperative behavior. These methods, however, have not been fully and systematically discussed. In prior research, we developed an HTL method and investigated its effectiveness in a dynamic multi-agent environment. The HTL method hierarchically abstracts obtained knowledge by ontological methods. Here, we evaluate the effectiveness of HTL in heterogeneous multi-agent situation with action ontology by conducting a computer simulation.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.9746/sicetr.51.409
CiNii Articles
http://ci.nii.ac.jp/naid/130005075841
CiNii Books
http://ci.nii.ac.jp/ncid/AN00072392
URL
http://id.ndl.go.jp/bib/026570935
URL
https://jlc.jst.go.jp/DN/JLC/20011858216?from=CiNii
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  • DOI : 10.9746/sicetr.51.409
  • ISSN : 0453-4654
  • CiNii Articles ID : 130005075841
  • CiNii Books ID : AN00072392

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