Multi-Agent Coordination for Strategic Maneuver with a Survey of Reinforcement Learning

Abstract

One promising avenue for implementing strategic maneuver to gain superiority over adversaries is through coordination of multi-agent systems (MAS) in future military operations. Recent work exploring the coordination of MAS has focused on the identification, classification, validation, implementation, and operationalization of emergent coordination through multi-agent reinforcement learning. Reinforcement Learning (RL) approaches can illuminate emergent behaviors through the exploration and exploitation of selected actions in a given environment, potentially leading to the inhibition of adversarial coordination which, in turn, can provide windows of opportunity across various intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition, and reconnaissance tasks. In this report, we present a brief overview of salient work in the RL domain and its potential applications for collaborative MAS for autonomous strategic maneuver.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 2021
Accession Number
AD1154872

Entities

People

  • Anjon Basak
  • Christopher D. Hsu
  • Christopher Kroninger
  • Derrik E. Asher
  • Erin G. Zaroukian
  • John A. Rogers
  • John Fossaceca
  • Luke Frerichs
  • Michael R. Dorothy
  • Piyush K. Sharma
  • Rolando Fernandez

Organizations

  • United States Army

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • C4I
  • Cyber
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Artificial Intelligence Software
  • Bayesian Networks
  • Command And Control
  • Computational Science
  • Data Mining
  • Doctrine
  • Information Processing
  • Information Science
  • Information Systems
  • Machine Learning
  • Military Operations
  • Military Research
  • Military Science
  • Multi-Domain Operations
  • Multiagent Systems
  • Neural Networks
  • Probabilistic Models

Readers

  • Distributed Systems and Data Platform Development
  • Neural Network Machine Learning.
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - Autonomous Systems
  • AI & ML - DoD AI Strategy