Asynchronous Cooperative Online Learning for Multi-Robot Control under Computational Delays

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Original abstract

Ensuring the safe operation of multi-agent systems (MASs) under uncertain environments is crucial for cooperative robotic, where external disturbances and inaccurate dynamic models can significantly compromise performance and reliability. To address this challenge, calibrated machine learning models, particularly Gaussian process (GP) regression, are extensively employed due to their interpretable performance quantification. As the interconnected communication of MASs facilitates cooperative learning, agents are able to enhance learning performance by exchanging local GP inferences with their neighbors and aggregating the received information via distributed GP strategies. However, variations in computational power and prediction tasks among agents inevitably lead to heterogeneous computational delays and differences in query points, which are often overlooked in existing aggregation methods. To overcome these limitations, this work proposes an asynchronous cooperative learning strategy that explicitly accounts for prediction accuracy, query point variations and delay effects. Additionally, a distributed control law based on an adjoint MAS is developed to ensure the desired control performance. Simulations on unmanned surface vehicles validate the effectiveness of the proposed approach, demonstrating substantial improvements in both learning and control performance compared to the state-of-the-art approaches.

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