Hamilton's Rule for Enabling Altruism in Multi-Agent Systems

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题名: Hamilton's Rule for Enabling Altruism in Multi-Agent Systems
作者: Butler, Brooks A., Egerstedt, Magnus
Publication Year: 2025
丛集: Computer Science
Subject Terms: Computer Science - Multiagent Systems, Electrical Engineering and Systems Science - Systems and Control
实物特征: This paper explores the application of Hamilton's rule to altruistic decision-making in multi-agent systems. Inspired by biological altruism, we introduce a framework that evaluates when individual agents should incur costs to benefit their neighbors. By adapting Hamilton's rule, we define agent ``fitness" in terms of task productivity rather than genetic survival. We formalize altruistic decision-making through a graph-based model of multi-agent interactions and propose a solution using collaborative control Lyapunov functions. The approach ensures that altruistic behaviors contribute to the collective goal-reaching efficiency of the system. We illustrate this framework on a multi-agent way-point navigation problem, where we show through simulation how agent importance levels influence altruistic decision-making, leading to improved coordination in navigation tasks.
文件类型: Working Paper
访问URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2505.09841
图书馆对新添的书籍: edsarx.2505.09841
数据库: arXiv
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