Aiming at the flexible manufacturing system with multi-machining and multi-assembly equipment, a new scheduling algorithm is proposed to decompose the assembly structure of the products, thus obtaining simple scheduli...Aiming at the flexible manufacturing system with multi-machining and multi-assembly equipment, a new scheduling algorithm is proposed to decompose the assembly structure of the products, thus obtaining simple scheduling problems and forming the cOrrespOnding agents. Then, the importance and the restriction of each agent are cOnsidered, to obtain an order of simple scheduling problems based on the cooperation game theory. With this order, the scheduling of sub-questions is implemented in term of rules, and the almost optimal scheduling results for meeting the restriction can be obtained. Experimental results verify the effectiveness of the proposed scheduling algorithm.展开更多
In multi-agent systems, autonomous agents may form coalition to increase the efficiency of problem solving. But the current coalition algorithm is very complex, and cannot satisfy the condition of optimality and stabl...In multi-agent systems, autonomous agents may form coalition to increase the efficiency of problem solving. But the current coalition algorithm is very complex, and cannot satisfy the condition of optimality and stableness simultaneously. To solve the problem, an algorithm that uses the mechanism of distribution according to work for coalition formation is presented, which can achieve global optimal and stable solution in subadditive task oriented domains. The validity of the algorithm is demonstrated by both experiments and theory.展开更多
A general multi-agent architecture is proposed for intelligent decision support system (MAIDSS). The agent in MAIDSS is built based on an extension of BDI framework. Several agents form a team working together on a de...A general multi-agent architecture is proposed for intelligent decision support system (MAIDSS). The agent in MAIDSS is built based on an extension of BDI framework. Several agents form a team working together on a decision problem; several agent teams are defined to stand for the benefits of different people in the real world. The decision making process is based on multi-agent cooperation, and a logical framework for a team of agents cooperating to create the solution for the decision problem is discussed in detail.展开更多
Multi-agent reinforcement learning(MARL)has proven its effectiveness in cooperative multi-agent systems(MASs)but still faces issues on the curse of dimensionality and learning efficiency.The main difficulty is caused ...Multi-agent reinforcement learning(MARL)has proven its effectiveness in cooperative multi-agent systems(MASs)but still faces issues on the curse of dimensionality and learning efficiency.The main difficulty is caused by the strong inter-agent coupling nature embedded in an MARL problem,which is yet to be fully exploited in existing algorithms.In this work,we recognize a learning graph characterizing the dependence between individual rewards and individual policies.Then we propose a graph-based reward aggregation(GRA)method,which utilizes the inherent coupling relationship among agents to eliminate redundant information.Specifically,GRA passes information among cooperating agents through graph attention networks to obtain aggregated rewards that contribute to the fitting of the value function,making each agent learn a decentralized executable cooperation policy.In addition,we propose a variant of GRA,named GRA-decen,which achieves decentralized training and decentralized execution(DTDE)when each agent only has access to information of partial agents in the learning process.We conduct experiments in different environments and demonstrate the practicality and scalability of our algorithms.展开更多
With the advent of sixth-generation mobile communications(6G),space-air-ground integrated networks have become mainstream.This paper focuses on collaborative scheduling for mobile edge computing(MEC)under a three-tier...With the advent of sixth-generation mobile communications(6G),space-air-ground integrated networks have become mainstream.This paper focuses on collaborative scheduling for mobile edge computing(MEC)under a three-tier heterogeneous architecture composed of mobile devices,unmanned aerial vehicles(UAVs),and macro base stations(BSs).This scenario typically faces fast channel fading,dynamic computational loads,and energy constraints,whereas classical queuing-theoretic or convex-optimization approaches struggle to yield robust solutions in highly dynamic settings.To address this issue,we formulate a multi-agent Markov decision process(MDP)for an air-ground-fused MEC system,unify link selection,bandwidth/power allocation,and task offloading into a continuous action space and propose a joint scheduling strategy that is based on an improved MATD3 algorithm.The improvements include Alternating Layer Normalization(ALN)in the actor to suppress gradient variance,Residual Orthogonalization(RO)in the critic to reduce the correlation between the twin Q-value estimates,and a dynamic-temperature reward to enable adaptive trade-offs during training.On a multi-user,dual-link simulation platform,we conduct ablation and baseline comparisons.The results reveal that the proposed method has better convergence and stability.Compared with MADDPG,TD3,and DSAC,our algorithm achieves more robust performance across key metrics.展开更多
With the release of the electricity sales side,large-scale small-capacity distributed power generation units are connected to the distribution side,forming multi-type market entities such as microgrids,integrated ener...With the release of the electricity sales side,large-scale small-capacity distributed power generation units are connected to the distribution side,forming multi-type market entities such as microgrids,integrated energy systems,and virtual power plants.With the large-scale integration of distributed energy,the energy market under the energy internet is different from a traditional transmission grid.It is currently developing in the direction of diversified entities and commodities,a flat structure,and a flexible and competitive multi-agent market mechanism.In this context,this study analyzes the value of combining blockchain and the electricity market presents the design of a blockchain trading framework for multi-agent cooperation and sharing of the energy internet.The nodes in market transactions are modeled through power system modeling in the physical layer and the transaction consensus strategy in the cyber layer;moreover,the nodes are verified in a modified IEEE 13 testing feeder of a distribution network.A transaction example is demonstrated using the multi-agent cooperation and sharing transaction platform based on the Ethereum private blockchain.展开更多
The year 2025 marked the 80th anniversary of the victory in the World Anti-Fascist War as well as the 10th anniversary of the Lancang-Mekong Cooperation (LMC) mechanism.Over the past decade, the six LMC countries have...The year 2025 marked the 80th anniversary of the victory in the World Anti-Fascist War as well as the 10th anniversary of the Lancang-Mekong Cooperation (LMC) mechanism.Over the past decade, the six LMC countries have maintained good-neighborly friendship, focused on development-oriented and pragmatic cooperation, and promoted inclusive, peoplecentered outcomes.展开更多
On October 28,2025,China and ASEAN signed the China-ASEAN Free Trade Area(CAFTA)3.0 Upgrade Protocol in Kuala Lumpur,Malaysia,in the presence of Chinese Premier Li Qiang,Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim,and lead...On October 28,2025,China and ASEAN signed the China-ASEAN Free Trade Area(CAFTA)3.0 Upgrade Protocol in Kuala Lumpur,Malaysia,in the presence of Chinese Premier Li Qiang,Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim,and leaders of other ASEAN member states.A close look at the protocol shows that the upgraded agreement marks substantive advances on several fronts.展开更多
China and Southeast Asia are entering a new phase of economic cooperation with the China-ASEAN Free Trade Area(CAFTA)3.0 Upgrade Protocol,in which the green economy has emerged as a central pillar of regional integrat...China and Southeast Asia are entering a new phase of economic cooperation with the China-ASEAN Free Trade Area(CAFTA)3.0 Upgrade Protocol,in which the green economy has emerged as a central pillar of regional integration.Negotiations were substantially concluded in October 2024,but the protocol wasn’t officially signed until October 28,2025,in Kuala Lumpur.The agreement moves beyond traditional tariff reductions to expand cooperation into nine major areas and introduces five new pillars:the digital economy,green economy,supply chain connectivity,competition and consumer protection,and support for micro,small,and medium-sized enterprises(MSMEs).展开更多
This paper presents an adaptive multi-agent coordination(AMAC)strategy suitable for complex scenarios,which only requires information exchange between neighbouring robots.Unlike traditional multi-agent coordination me...This paper presents an adaptive multi-agent coordination(AMAC)strategy suitable for complex scenarios,which only requires information exchange between neighbouring robots.Unlike traditional multi-agent coordination methods that are solved by neural dynamics,the proposed strategy displays greater flexibility,adaptability and scalability.Furthermore,the proposed AMAC strategy is reconstructed as a time-varying complex-valued matrix equation.By introducing a dynamic error function,a fixed-time convergent zeroing neural network(FTCZNN)model is designed for the online solution of the AMAC strategy,with its convergence time upper bound derived theoretically.Finally,the effectiveness and applicability of the coordination control method are demonstrated by numerical simulations and physical experiments.Numerical results indicate that this method can reduce the formation error to the order of 10^(-6)within 1.8 s.展开更多
This paper addresses the synchronization of follower agents’state vectors with that of a leader in high-order nonlinear multi-agent systems.The proposed low-complexity control scheme employs high-gain observers to es...This paper addresses the synchronization of follower agents’state vectors with that of a leader in high-order nonlinear multi-agent systems.The proposed low-complexity control scheme employs high-gain observers to estimate higher-order synchronization errors,enabling the controller to rely solely on relative output measurements.This approach significantly reduces the dependence on full-state information,which is often infeasible or costly in practical engineering applications.An output feedback control strategy is developed to overcome these limitations while ensuring robust and effective synchronization.Simulation results are provided to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach and validate the theoretical findings.展开更多
Multi-Agent Systems(MAS),which consist of multiple interacting agents,are crucial in Cyber-Physical Systems(CPS),because they improve system adaptability,efficiency,and robustness through parallel processing and colla...Multi-Agent Systems(MAS),which consist of multiple interacting agents,are crucial in Cyber-Physical Systems(CPS),because they improve system adaptability,efficiency,and robustness through parallel processing and collaboration.However,most existing unsupervised meta-learning methods are centralized and not suitable for multi-agent systems where data are distributed stored and inaccessible to all agents.Meta-GMVAE,based on Variational Autoencoder(VAE)and set-level variational inference,represents a sophisticated unsupervised meta-learning model that improves generative performance by efficiently learning data representations across various tasks,increasing adaptability and reducing sample requirements.Inspired by these advancements,we propose a novel Distributed Unsupervised Meta-Learning(DUML)framework based on Meta-GMVAE and a fusion strategy.Furthermore,we present a DUML algorithm based on Gaussian Mixture Model(DUMLGMM),where the parameters of the Gaussian-mixture are solved by an Expectation-Maximization algorithm.Simulations on Omniglot and Mini Image Net datasets show that DUMLGMM can achieve the performance of the corresponding centralized algorithm and outperform non-cooperative algorithm.展开更多
This paper focuses on the leader-following positive consensus problems of heterogeneous switched multi-agent systems.First,a state-feedback controller with dynamic compensation is introduced to achieve positive consen...This paper focuses on the leader-following positive consensus problems of heterogeneous switched multi-agent systems.First,a state-feedback controller with dynamic compensation is introduced to achieve positive consensus under average dwell time switching.Then sufficient conditions are derived to guarantee the positive consensus.The gain matrices of the control protocol are described using a matrix decomposition approach and the corresponding computational complexity is reduced by resorting to linear programming and co-positive Lyapunov functions.Finally,two numerical examples are provided to illustrate the results obtained.展开更多
In recent years,researchers have leveraged single-agent reinforcement learning to boost educational outcomes and deliver personalized interventions;yet this paradigm provides no capacity for inter-agent interaction.Mu...In recent years,researchers have leveraged single-agent reinforcement learning to boost educational outcomes and deliver personalized interventions;yet this paradigm provides no capacity for inter-agent interaction.Multi-agent reinforcement learning(MARL)overcomes this limitation by allowing several agents to learn simultaneously within a shared environment,each choosing actions that maximize its own or the group's rewards.By explicitly modeling and exploiting agent-to-agent dynamics,MARL can align those interactions with pedagogical goals such as peer tutoring,collaborative problem-solving,or gamified competition,thus opening richer avenues for adaptive and socially informed learning experiences.This survey investigates the impact of MARL on educational outcomes by examining evidence of its effectiveness in enhancing learner performance,engagement,equity,and reducing teacher workload compared to single agent or traditional approaches.It explores the educational domains and pedagogical problems addressed by MARL,identifies the algorithmic families used,and analyzes their influence on learning.The review also assesses experimental settings and evaluation metrics to determine ecological validity,and outlines current challenges and future research directions in applying MARL to education.展开更多
Future mobile networks in the sixth generation(6G)are poised for a paradigm shift from conventional communication services toward comprehensive information services,driving the evolution of radio access network(RAN)ar...Future mobile networks in the sixth generation(6G)are poised for a paradigm shift from conventional communication services toward comprehensive information services,driving the evolution of radio access network(RAN)architectures toward enhanced cooperation,intelligence,and service orientation.Building upon the concept of centralized,collaborative,cloud,and clean RAN(C-RAN),this article proposes a novel cooperative,intelligent,and service-based RAN(CIS-RAN)architecture.Focusing on cooperation,CIS-RAN extends the traditional cooperative communication paradigm by further integrating cooperative sensing and cooperative artificial intelligence(AI).To improve both performance and effectiveness across diverse application scenarios,CIS-RAN enhances network cooperation throughout the entire process of acquisition,transmission,and processing,thereby enabling efficient information acquisition,diverse cooperative interactions,and intelligent fusion decision-making.Key technologies are discussed,with network cooperative multiple-input multiple-output(MIMO)examined as a case study,demonstrating superior performance over traditional architectures,as demonstrated by numerical results.Future research directions are outlined,emphasizing the continued exploration and advancement of the CIS-RAN architecture,particularly in enhancing network cooperation.展开更多
To maximize the profits of power grid operators(GOs),load aggregators(LAs)and electricity customers(ECs),this paper proposes a hierarchical demand response(HDR)framework that considers competing interaction based on m...To maximize the profits of power grid operators(GOs),load aggregators(LAs)and electricity customers(ECs),this paper proposes a hierarchical demand response(HDR)framework that considers competing interaction based on multiagent deep deterministic policy gradient(MaDDPG).The ECs are divided into conventional ECs and the electric vehicles(EVs)which are managed by ECs agent(ECA)and EV agent(EVA)to exploit the flexibility of the HDR framework.Thus,the HDR is a tri-layer model determined by five types of agents engaging in competing interaction to maximize their own profits.To address the limitations of mathematical expression and participation scale in the Stackelberg game within the HDR model,a dynamic interaction mechanism is adopted.Moreover,to tackle the HDR involving various entities,the MaDDPG develops multiple agents to simulation the dynamic competing interactions between each subject as well as solve the problem of continuous action control.Furthermore,MaDDPG adopts soft target update and priority experience replay method to ensure stable and effective training,and makes the exploration strategy comprehensive by using exploration noise.Simulation studies are conducted to verify the performance of the MaDDPG with dynamic interaction mechanism in dealing with multilayer multi-agent continuous action control,compared to the double deep Q network(DDQN),deep Q network(DQN)and dueling DQN.Additionally,comparisons among the proposed HDR with the price based DR(PBDR)and incentive based DR(IBDR)are analyzed to investigate the flexibility of the HDR.展开更多
This paper investigates the consensus tracking control problem for high order nonlinear multi-agent systems subject to non-affine faults,partial measurable states,uncertain control coefficients,and unknown external di...This paper investigates the consensus tracking control problem for high order nonlinear multi-agent systems subject to non-affine faults,partial measurable states,uncertain control coefficients,and unknown external disturbances.Under the directed topology conditions,an observer-based finite-time control strategy based on adaptive backstepping and is proposed,in which a neural network-based state observer is employed to approximate the unmeasurable system state variables.To address the complexity explosion problem associated with the backstepping method,a finite-time command filter is incorporated,with error compensation signals designed to mitigate the filter-induced errors.Additionally,the Butterworth low-pass filter is introduced to avoid the algebraic ring problem in the design of the controller.The finite-time stability of the closed-loop system is rigorously analyzed with the finite-time Lyapunov stability criterion,validating that all closed-loop signals of the system remain bounded within a finite time.Finally,the effectiveness of the proposed control strategy is verified through a simulation example.展开更多
President Xi Jinping Chooses Southeast Asia for First Overseas Visit of 2025 From April 14 to 18,2025,Chinese President Xi Jinping conducted state visits to Vietnam,Malaysia,and Cambodia.China and Vietnam are socialis...President Xi Jinping Chooses Southeast Asia for First Overseas Visit of 2025 From April 14 to 18,2025,Chinese President Xi Jinping conducted state visits to Vietnam,Malaysia,and Cambodia.China and Vietnam are socialist neighbors linked by mountains and rivers,and the China-Vietnam community with a shared future carries strategic significance.展开更多
Addressing optimal confrontation methods in multi-agent attack-defense scenarios is a complex challenge.Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning(MARL)provides an effective framework for tackling sequential decision-making p...Addressing optimal confrontation methods in multi-agent attack-defense scenarios is a complex challenge.Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning(MARL)provides an effective framework for tackling sequential decision-making problems,significantly enhancing swarm intelligence in maneuvering.However,applying MARL to unmanned swarms presents two primary challenges.First,defensive agents must balance autonomy with collaboration under limited perception while coordinating against adversaries.Second,current algorithms aim to maximize global or individual rewards,making them sensitive to fluctuations in enemy strategies and environmental changes,especially when rewards are sparse.To tackle these issues,we propose an algorithm of MultiAgent Reinforcement Learning with Layered Autonomy and Collaboration(MARL-LAC)for collaborative confrontations.This algorithm integrates dual twin Critics to mitigate the high variance associated with policy gradients.Furthermore,MARL-LAC employs layered autonomy and collaboration to address multi-objective problems,specifically learning a global reward function for the swarm alongside local reward functions for individual defensive agents.Experimental results demonstrate that MARL-LAC enhances decision-making and collaborative behaviors among agents,outperforming the existing algorithms and emphasizing the importance of layered autonomy and collaboration in multi-agent systems.The observed adversarial behaviors demonstrate that agents using MARL-LAC effectively maintain cohesive formations that conceal their intentions by confusing the offensive agent while successfully encircling the target.展开更多
Multimodal dialogue systems often fail to maintain coherent reasoning over extended conversations and suffer from hallucination due to limited context modeling capabilities.Current approaches struggle with crossmodal ...Multimodal dialogue systems often fail to maintain coherent reasoning over extended conversations and suffer from hallucination due to limited context modeling capabilities.Current approaches struggle with crossmodal alignment,temporal consistency,and robust handling of noisy or incomplete inputs across multiple modalities.We propose Multi Agent-Chain of Thought(CoT),a novel multi-agent chain-of-thought reasoning framework where specialized agents for text,vision,and speech modalities collaboratively construct shared reasoning traces through inter-agent message passing and consensus voting mechanisms.Our architecture incorporates self-reflection modules,conflict resolution protocols,and dynamic rationale alignment to enhance consistency,factual accuracy,and user engagement.The framework employs a hierarchical attention mechanism with cross-modal fusion and implements adaptive reasoning depth based on dialogue complexity.Comprehensive evaluations on Situated Interactive Multi-Modal Conversations(SIMMC)2.0,VisDial v1.0,and newly introduced challenging scenarios demonstrate statistically significant improvements in grounding accuracy(p<0.01),chain-of-thought interpretability,and robustness to adversarial inputs compared to state-of-the-art monolithic transformer baselines and existing multi-agent approaches.展开更多
文摘Aiming at the flexible manufacturing system with multi-machining and multi-assembly equipment, a new scheduling algorithm is proposed to decompose the assembly structure of the products, thus obtaining simple scheduling problems and forming the cOrrespOnding agents. Then, the importance and the restriction of each agent are cOnsidered, to obtain an order of simple scheduling problems based on the cooperation game theory. With this order, the scheduling of sub-questions is implemented in term of rules, and the almost optimal scheduling results for meeting the restriction can be obtained. Experimental results verify the effectiveness of the proposed scheduling algorithm.
文摘In multi-agent systems, autonomous agents may form coalition to increase the efficiency of problem solving. But the current coalition algorithm is very complex, and cannot satisfy the condition of optimality and stableness simultaneously. To solve the problem, an algorithm that uses the mechanism of distribution according to work for coalition formation is presented, which can achieve global optimal and stable solution in subadditive task oriented domains. The validity of the algorithm is demonstrated by both experiments and theory.
文摘A general multi-agent architecture is proposed for intelligent decision support system (MAIDSS). The agent in MAIDSS is built based on an extension of BDI framework. Several agents form a team working together on a decision problem; several agent teams are defined to stand for the benefits of different people in the real world. The decision making process is based on multi-agent cooperation, and a logical framework for a team of agents cooperating to create the solution for the decision problem is discussed in detail.
基金supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(grants 62203073 and 62573068)the Natural Science Foundation of Chongqing,China(grant CSTB2022NSCQMSX0577)。
文摘Multi-agent reinforcement learning(MARL)has proven its effectiveness in cooperative multi-agent systems(MASs)but still faces issues on the curse of dimensionality and learning efficiency.The main difficulty is caused by the strong inter-agent coupling nature embedded in an MARL problem,which is yet to be fully exploited in existing algorithms.In this work,we recognize a learning graph characterizing the dependence between individual rewards and individual policies.Then we propose a graph-based reward aggregation(GRA)method,which utilizes the inherent coupling relationship among agents to eliminate redundant information.Specifically,GRA passes information among cooperating agents through graph attention networks to obtain aggregated rewards that contribute to the fitting of the value function,making each agent learn a decentralized executable cooperation policy.In addition,we propose a variant of GRA,named GRA-decen,which achieves decentralized training and decentralized execution(DTDE)when each agent only has access to information of partial agents in the learning process.We conduct experiments in different environments and demonstrate the practicality and scalability of our algorithms.
文摘With the advent of sixth-generation mobile communications(6G),space-air-ground integrated networks have become mainstream.This paper focuses on collaborative scheduling for mobile edge computing(MEC)under a three-tier heterogeneous architecture composed of mobile devices,unmanned aerial vehicles(UAVs),and macro base stations(BSs).This scenario typically faces fast channel fading,dynamic computational loads,and energy constraints,whereas classical queuing-theoretic or convex-optimization approaches struggle to yield robust solutions in highly dynamic settings.To address this issue,we formulate a multi-agent Markov decision process(MDP)for an air-ground-fused MEC system,unify link selection,bandwidth/power allocation,and task offloading into a continuous action space and propose a joint scheduling strategy that is based on an improved MATD3 algorithm.The improvements include Alternating Layer Normalization(ALN)in the actor to suppress gradient variance,Residual Orthogonalization(RO)in the critic to reduce the correlation between the twin Q-value estimates,and a dynamic-temperature reward to enable adaptive trade-offs during training.On a multi-user,dual-link simulation platform,we conduct ablation and baseline comparisons.The results reveal that the proposed method has better convergence and stability.Compared with MADDPG,TD3,and DSAC,our algorithm achieves more robust performance across key metrics.
基金the Smart Grid Joint Fund of the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.U2066209)the Science and Technology Project of the China Electric Power Research Institute(No.AI83-20-002).
文摘With the release of the electricity sales side,large-scale small-capacity distributed power generation units are connected to the distribution side,forming multi-type market entities such as microgrids,integrated energy systems,and virtual power plants.With the large-scale integration of distributed energy,the energy market under the energy internet is different from a traditional transmission grid.It is currently developing in the direction of diversified entities and commodities,a flat structure,and a flexible and competitive multi-agent market mechanism.In this context,this study analyzes the value of combining blockchain and the electricity market presents the design of a blockchain trading framework for multi-agent cooperation and sharing of the energy internet.The nodes in market transactions are modeled through power system modeling in the physical layer and the transaction consensus strategy in the cyber layer;moreover,the nodes are verified in a modified IEEE 13 testing feeder of a distribution network.A transaction example is demonstrated using the multi-agent cooperation and sharing transaction platform based on the Ethereum private blockchain.
文摘The year 2025 marked the 80th anniversary of the victory in the World Anti-Fascist War as well as the 10th anniversary of the Lancang-Mekong Cooperation (LMC) mechanism.Over the past decade, the six LMC countries have maintained good-neighborly friendship, focused on development-oriented and pragmatic cooperation, and promoted inclusive, peoplecentered outcomes.
文摘On October 28,2025,China and ASEAN signed the China-ASEAN Free Trade Area(CAFTA)3.0 Upgrade Protocol in Kuala Lumpur,Malaysia,in the presence of Chinese Premier Li Qiang,Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim,and leaders of other ASEAN member states.A close look at the protocol shows that the upgraded agreement marks substantive advances on several fronts.
文摘China and Southeast Asia are entering a new phase of economic cooperation with the China-ASEAN Free Trade Area(CAFTA)3.0 Upgrade Protocol,in which the green economy has emerged as a central pillar of regional integration.Negotiations were substantially concluded in October 2024,but the protocol wasn’t officially signed until October 28,2025,in Kuala Lumpur.The agreement moves beyond traditional tariff reductions to expand cooperation into nine major areas and introduces five new pillars:the digital economy,green economy,supply chain connectivity,competition and consumer protection,and support for micro,small,and medium-sized enterprises(MSMEs).
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grants 61962023,61562029 and 62466019.
文摘This paper presents an adaptive multi-agent coordination(AMAC)strategy suitable for complex scenarios,which only requires information exchange between neighbouring robots.Unlike traditional multi-agent coordination methods that are solved by neural dynamics,the proposed strategy displays greater flexibility,adaptability and scalability.Furthermore,the proposed AMAC strategy is reconstructed as a time-varying complex-valued matrix equation.By introducing a dynamic error function,a fixed-time convergent zeroing neural network(FTCZNN)model is designed for the online solution of the AMAC strategy,with its convergence time upper bound derived theoretically.Finally,the effectiveness and applicability of the coordination control method are demonstrated by numerical simulations and physical experiments.Numerical results indicate that this method can reduce the formation error to the order of 10^(-6)within 1.8 s.
文摘This paper addresses the synchronization of follower agents’state vectors with that of a leader in high-order nonlinear multi-agent systems.The proposed low-complexity control scheme employs high-gain observers to estimate higher-order synchronization errors,enabling the controller to rely solely on relative output measurements.This approach significantly reduces the dependence on full-state information,which is often infeasible or costly in practical engineering applications.An output feedback control strategy is developed to overcome these limitations while ensuring robust and effective synchronization.Simulation results are provided to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach and validate the theoretical findings.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China Youth Fund(No.62101579)。
文摘Multi-Agent Systems(MAS),which consist of multiple interacting agents,are crucial in Cyber-Physical Systems(CPS),because they improve system adaptability,efficiency,and robustness through parallel processing and collaboration.However,most existing unsupervised meta-learning methods are centralized and not suitable for multi-agent systems where data are distributed stored and inaccessible to all agents.Meta-GMVAE,based on Variational Autoencoder(VAE)and set-level variational inference,represents a sophisticated unsupervised meta-learning model that improves generative performance by efficiently learning data representations across various tasks,increasing adaptability and reducing sample requirements.Inspired by these advancements,we propose a novel Distributed Unsupervised Meta-Learning(DUML)framework based on Meta-GMVAE and a fusion strategy.Furthermore,we present a DUML algorithm based on Gaussian Mixture Model(DUMLGMM),where the parameters of the Gaussian-mixture are solved by an Expectation-Maximization algorithm.Simulations on Omniglot and Mini Image Net datasets show that DUMLGMM can achieve the performance of the corresponding centralized algorithm and outperform non-cooperative algorithm.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(62463007,62463005)the Natural Science Foundation of Hainan Province(625RC710,625MS047)+1 种基金the System Control and Information Processing Education Ministry Key Laboratory Open Funding,China(Scip20240119)the Science Research Funding of Hainan University,China(KYQD(ZR)22180,KYQD(ZR)23180).
文摘This paper focuses on the leader-following positive consensus problems of heterogeneous switched multi-agent systems.First,a state-feedback controller with dynamic compensation is introduced to achieve positive consensus under average dwell time switching.Then sufficient conditions are derived to guarantee the positive consensus.The gain matrices of the control protocol are described using a matrix decomposition approach and the corresponding computational complexity is reduced by resorting to linear programming and co-positive Lyapunov functions.Finally,two numerical examples are provided to illustrate the results obtained.
文摘In recent years,researchers have leveraged single-agent reinforcement learning to boost educational outcomes and deliver personalized interventions;yet this paradigm provides no capacity for inter-agent interaction.Multi-agent reinforcement learning(MARL)overcomes this limitation by allowing several agents to learn simultaneously within a shared environment,each choosing actions that maximize its own or the group's rewards.By explicitly modeling and exploiting agent-to-agent dynamics,MARL can align those interactions with pedagogical goals such as peer tutoring,collaborative problem-solving,or gamified competition,thus opening richer avenues for adaptive and socially informed learning experiences.This survey investigates the impact of MARL on educational outcomes by examining evidence of its effectiveness in enhancing learner performance,engagement,equity,and reducing teacher workload compared to single agent or traditional approaches.It explores the educational domains and pedagogical problems addressed by MARL,identifies the algorithmic families used,and analyzes their influence on learning.The review also assesses experimental settings and evaluation metrics to determine ecological validity,and outlines current challenges and future research directions in applying MARL to education.
基金National Key R&D Program of China under Grant 2022YFB2902001。
文摘Future mobile networks in the sixth generation(6G)are poised for a paradigm shift from conventional communication services toward comprehensive information services,driving the evolution of radio access network(RAN)architectures toward enhanced cooperation,intelligence,and service orientation.Building upon the concept of centralized,collaborative,cloud,and clean RAN(C-RAN),this article proposes a novel cooperative,intelligent,and service-based RAN(CIS-RAN)architecture.Focusing on cooperation,CIS-RAN extends the traditional cooperative communication paradigm by further integrating cooperative sensing and cooperative artificial intelligence(AI).To improve both performance and effectiveness across diverse application scenarios,CIS-RAN enhances network cooperation throughout the entire process of acquisition,transmission,and processing,thereby enabling efficient information acquisition,diverse cooperative interactions,and intelligent fusion decision-making.Key technologies are discussed,with network cooperative multiple-input multiple-output(MIMO)examined as a case study,demonstrating superior performance over traditional architectures,as demonstrated by numerical results.Future research directions are outlined,emphasizing the continued exploration and advancement of the CIS-RAN architecture,particularly in enhancing network cooperation.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.52477097)the GuangDong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation(2023A1515240014)the State Key Laboratory of Advanced Electromagnetic Technology(Grant No.AET 2024KF005).
文摘To maximize the profits of power grid operators(GOs),load aggregators(LAs)and electricity customers(ECs),this paper proposes a hierarchical demand response(HDR)framework that considers competing interaction based on multiagent deep deterministic policy gradient(MaDDPG).The ECs are divided into conventional ECs and the electric vehicles(EVs)which are managed by ECs agent(ECA)and EV agent(EVA)to exploit the flexibility of the HDR framework.Thus,the HDR is a tri-layer model determined by five types of agents engaging in competing interaction to maximize their own profits.To address the limitations of mathematical expression and participation scale in the Stackelberg game within the HDR model,a dynamic interaction mechanism is adopted.Moreover,to tackle the HDR involving various entities,the MaDDPG develops multiple agents to simulation the dynamic competing interactions between each subject as well as solve the problem of continuous action control.Furthermore,MaDDPG adopts soft target update and priority experience replay method to ensure stable and effective training,and makes the exploration strategy comprehensive by using exploration noise.Simulation studies are conducted to verify the performance of the MaDDPG with dynamic interaction mechanism in dealing with multilayer multi-agent continuous action control,compared to the double deep Q network(DDQN),deep Q network(DQN)and dueling DQN.Additionally,comparisons among the proposed HDR with the price based DR(PBDR)and incentive based DR(IBDR)are analyzed to investigate the flexibility of the HDR.
基金supported in part by the Beijing Natural Science Foundation under Grant 4252050in part by the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars under Grant 62425304in part by the Basic Science Center Programs of NSFC under Grant 62088101.
文摘This paper investigates the consensus tracking control problem for high order nonlinear multi-agent systems subject to non-affine faults,partial measurable states,uncertain control coefficients,and unknown external disturbances.Under the directed topology conditions,an observer-based finite-time control strategy based on adaptive backstepping and is proposed,in which a neural network-based state observer is employed to approximate the unmeasurable system state variables.To address the complexity explosion problem associated with the backstepping method,a finite-time command filter is incorporated,with error compensation signals designed to mitigate the filter-induced errors.Additionally,the Butterworth low-pass filter is introduced to avoid the algebraic ring problem in the design of the controller.The finite-time stability of the closed-loop system is rigorously analyzed with the finite-time Lyapunov stability criterion,validating that all closed-loop signals of the system remain bounded within a finite time.Finally,the effectiveness of the proposed control strategy is verified through a simulation example.
文摘President Xi Jinping Chooses Southeast Asia for First Overseas Visit of 2025 From April 14 to 18,2025,Chinese President Xi Jinping conducted state visits to Vietnam,Malaysia,and Cambodia.China and Vietnam are socialist neighbors linked by mountains and rivers,and the China-Vietnam community with a shared future carries strategic significance.
基金co-supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.72371052 and 71871042).
文摘Addressing optimal confrontation methods in multi-agent attack-defense scenarios is a complex challenge.Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning(MARL)provides an effective framework for tackling sequential decision-making problems,significantly enhancing swarm intelligence in maneuvering.However,applying MARL to unmanned swarms presents two primary challenges.First,defensive agents must balance autonomy with collaboration under limited perception while coordinating against adversaries.Second,current algorithms aim to maximize global or individual rewards,making them sensitive to fluctuations in enemy strategies and environmental changes,especially when rewards are sparse.To tackle these issues,we propose an algorithm of MultiAgent Reinforcement Learning with Layered Autonomy and Collaboration(MARL-LAC)for collaborative confrontations.This algorithm integrates dual twin Critics to mitigate the high variance associated with policy gradients.Furthermore,MARL-LAC employs layered autonomy and collaboration to address multi-objective problems,specifically learning a global reward function for the swarm alongside local reward functions for individual defensive agents.Experimental results demonstrate that MARL-LAC enhances decision-making and collaborative behaviors among agents,outperforming the existing algorithms and emphasizing the importance of layered autonomy and collaboration in multi-agent systems.The observed adversarial behaviors demonstrate that agents using MARL-LAC effectively maintain cohesive formations that conceal their intentions by confusing the offensive agent while successfully encircling the target.
文摘Multimodal dialogue systems often fail to maintain coherent reasoning over extended conversations and suffer from hallucination due to limited context modeling capabilities.Current approaches struggle with crossmodal alignment,temporal consistency,and robust handling of noisy or incomplete inputs across multiple modalities.We propose Multi Agent-Chain of Thought(CoT),a novel multi-agent chain-of-thought reasoning framework where specialized agents for text,vision,and speech modalities collaboratively construct shared reasoning traces through inter-agent message passing and consensus voting mechanisms.Our architecture incorporates self-reflection modules,conflict resolution protocols,and dynamic rationale alignment to enhance consistency,factual accuracy,and user engagement.The framework employs a hierarchical attention mechanism with cross-modal fusion and implements adaptive reasoning depth based on dialogue complexity.Comprehensive evaluations on Situated Interactive Multi-Modal Conversations(SIMMC)2.0,VisDial v1.0,and newly introduced challenging scenarios demonstrate statistically significant improvements in grounding accuracy(p<0.01),chain-of-thought interpretability,and robustness to adversarial inputs compared to state-of-the-art monolithic transformer baselines and existing multi-agent approaches.
