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Multiagent Decision-Making Dynamics Inspired by Honeybees
Gray, Rebecca; Franci, Alessio; Srivastava, Vaibhav et al.
2018In IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, 5 (2), p. 793 - 806
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Keywords :
Adaptive control; animal behavior; bifurcation; decentralized control; decision-making; multiagent systems; networked control systems; nonlinear dynamical systems; Adaptation models; Adaptive Control; Animal behavior; Bifurcation control; Biological system modeling; Multi-agent decision making; Multiagent networks; Pitch-fork bifurcations; Control and Systems Engineering; Signal Processing; Computer Networks and Communications; Control and Optimization
Abstract :
[en] When choosing between candidate nest sites, a honeybee swarm reliably chooses the most valuable site and even when faced with the choice between near-equal value sites, it makes highly efficient decisions. Value-sensitive decision-making is enabled by a distributed social effort among the honeybees, and it leads to decision-making dynamics of the swarm that are remarkably robust to perturbation and adaptive to change. To explore and generalize these features to other networks, we design distributed multiagent network dynamics that exhibit a pitchfork bifurcation, ubiquitous in biological models of decision-making. Using tools of nonlinear dynamics, we show how the designed agent-based dynamics recover the high performing value-sensitive decision-making of the honeybees and rigorously connect an investigation of mechanisms of animal group decision-making to systematic, bioinspired control of multiagent network systems. We further present a distributed adaptive bifurcation control law and prove how it enhances the network decision-making performance beyond that observed in swarms.
Disciplines :
Engineering, computing & technology: Multidisciplinary, general & others
Author, co-author :
Gray, Rebecca ;  Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, United States
Franci, Alessio  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département d'électricité, électronique et informatique (Institut Montefiore) > Brain-Inspired Computing ; Department of Mathematics, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México, Mexico
Srivastava, Vaibhav;  Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, United States
Leonard, Naomi Ehrich ;  Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, United States
Language :
English
Title :
Multiagent Decision-Making Dynamics Inspired by Honeybees
Publication date :
June 2018
Journal title :
IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems
ISSN :
2325-5870
Publisher :
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Volume :
5
Issue :
2
Pages :
793 - 806
Peer reviewed :
Peer reviewed
Funders :
NSF - National Science Foundation
ONR - Office of Naval Research
UNAM - National Autonomous University of Mexico
Funding text :
Manuscript received November 21, 2017; accepted December 4, 2017. Date of publication January 23, 2018; date of current version June 18, 2018. This work was supported in part by the NSF under Grant CMMI-1635056, in part by ONR under Grant N00014-14-1-0635, and in part by DGAPA-PAPIIT (UNAM) under Grant IA105816. Recommended by Associate Editor J. Baillieul. R. Gray and A. Franci share first authorship of this paper. (Corresponding author: Naomi Ehrich Leonard.) R. Gray and N. E. Leonard are with the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544 USA (e-mail: rgray@princeton.edu; naomi@princeton.edu).
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