start-ver=1.4 cd-journal=joma no-vol=3 cd-vols= no-issue= article-no= start-page=2500 end-page=2505 dt-received= dt-revised= dt-accepted= dt-pub-year=2003 dt-pub=200310 dt-online= en-article= kn-article= en-subject= kn-subject= en-title= kn-title=Hybrid autonomous control for heterogeneous multi-agent system en-subtitle= kn-subtitle= en-abstract= kn-abstract=

Reinforcement learning is an adaptive and flexible control method for autonomous system. In our previous works, we had proposed a reinforcement learning algorithm for redundant systems: "Q-learning with dynamic structuring of exploration space based on GA (QDSEGA)", and applied it to multi-agent systems. However previous works of the QDSEGA have been restricted to homogeneous agents. In this paper, we extend our previous works of multi-agent systems, and propose a hybrid autonomous control method for heterogeneous multi-agent systems. To demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method, simulations of transportation task by 10 heterogeneous mobile robots have been carried out. As a result effective behaviors have been obtained.

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