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As autonomous agents, from self-driving cars to virtual assistants, become increasingly present in everyday life, safe and effective collaboration depends on human understanding of agents' intentions. Current intent communication approaches…

We present a method for combining multi-agent communication and traditional data-driven approaches to natural language learning, with an end goal of teaching agents to communicate with humans in natural language. Our starting point is a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-15 Angeliki Lazaridou , Anna Potapenko , Olivier Tieleman

Building a machine learning driven spoken dialog system for goal-oriented interactions involves careful design of intents and data collection along with development of intent recognition models and dialog policy learning algorithms. The…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Saurav Sahay , Shachi H Kumar , Eda Okur , Haroon Syed , Lama Nachman

Traditional radio systems are strictly co-designed on the lower levels of the OSI stack for compatibility and efficiency. Although this has enabled the success of radio communications, it has also introduced lengthy standardization…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-01-16 Colin de Vrieze , Shane Barratt , Daniel Tsai , Anant Sahai

We introduce hybrid execution in multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL), a new paradigm in which agents aim to successfully complete cooperative tasks with arbitrary communication levels at execution time by taking advantage of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Pedro P. Santos , Diogo S. Carvalho , Miguel Vasco , Alberto Sardinha , Pedro A. Santos , Ana Paiva , Francisco S. Melo

We consider the problem of using multiple agents to harvest data from a collection of sensor nodes (targets) scattered across a two-dimensional environment. These targets transmit their data to the agents that move in the space above them,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-25 Shili Wu , Yancheng Zhu , Aniruddha Datta , Sean B. Andersson

In this paper, we propose a model predictive control (MPC) that accomplishes interactive robotic tasks, in which multiple contacts may occur at unknown locations. To address such scenarios, we made an explicit contact feedback loop in the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Seo Wook Han , Maged Iskandar , Jinoh Lee , Min Jun Kim

Wireless communication is evolving into an agent era, where large-scale agents with inherent embodied intelligence are not just users but active participants. The perfect combination of wireless communication and embodied intelligence can…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Hongtao Liang , Yihe Diao , YuHang Wu , Fuhui Zhou , Qihui Wu

Research, innovation and practical capital investment have been increasing rapidly toward the realization of autonomous physical agents. This includes industrial and service robots, unmanned aerial vehicles, embedded control devices, and a…

Recent technological progress in the development of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) together with decreasing acquisition costs make the application of drone fleets attractive for a wide variety of tasks. In agriculture, disaster management,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Yoav Alon , Huiyu Zhou

Large Language Models (LLMs) perform well in language tasks but often lack collaborative awareness and struggle to optimize global performance in multi-agent settings. We present a reinforcement learning-augmented LLM agent framework that…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Dong Qiu , Duo Xu , Limengxi Yue

Coordination in multi-agent system is very essential, in order to perform complex tasks and lead MAS towards its goal. Also, the member agents of multi-agent system should be autonomous as well as collaborative to accomplish the complex…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2013-12-17 Sandeep Kaur , Harjot Kaur , Sumeet Kaur Sehra

The communication energy in a wireless network of mobile autonomous agents should be defined to include the propulsion energy as well as the transmission energy used to facilitate information transfer. We therefore develop…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-20 Omar J. Faqir , Eric C. Kerrigan , Deniz Gündüz , Yuanbo Nie

Inspired by recent advances in agent communication with graph neural networks, this work proposes the representation of multi-agent communication capabilities as a directed labeled heterogeneous agent graph, in which node labels denote…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Douglas De Rizzo Meneghetti , Reinaldo Augusto da Costa Bianchi

Achieving joint objectives by teams of cooperative planning agents requires significant coordination and communication efforts. For a single-agent system facing a plan failure in a dynamic environment, arguably, attempts to repair the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-02-14 Antonín Komenda , Peter Novák , Michal Pěchouček

Robotic manipulation demands precise control over both contact forces and motion trajectories. While force control is essential for achieving compliant interaction and high-frequency adaptation, it is limited to operations in close…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Melih Özcan , Ozgur S. Oguz

We present a concept of constrained collaborative mobile agents (CCMA) system, which consists of multiple wheeled mobile agents constrained by a passive kinematic chain. This mobile robotic system is modular in nature, the passive kinematic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-09-11 Nitish Kumar , Stelian Coros

Goal-oriented communication shifts the focus from merely delivering timely information to maximizing decision-making effectiveness by prioritizing the transmission of high-value information. In this context, we introduce the Goal-oriented…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Kunpeng Liu , Shaohua Wu , Aimin Li , Qinyu Zhang

Robust coordination skills enable agents to operate cohesively in shared environments, together towards a common goal and, ideally, individually without hindering each other's progress. To this end, this paper presents Coordinated QMIX…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Giovanni Minelli , Mirco Musolesi

Multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) has made significant strides in enabling coordinated behaviors among autonomous agents. However, most existing approaches assume that communication is instantaneous, reliable, and has unlimited…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Zejiao Liu , Yi Li , Jiali Wang , Junqi Tu , Yitian Hong , Fangfei Li , Yang Liu , Toshiharu Sugawara , Yang Tang