Hiding Leader’s Identity in Leader-Follower Navigation through Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

Ankur Deka,Wenhao Luo,Huao Li,Michael Lewis,Katia Sycara,Ankur Deka,Wenhao Luo,Huao Li,Michael Lewis,Katia Sycara

Leader-follower navigation is a popular class of multi-robot algorithms where a leader robot leads the follower robots in a team. The leader has specialized capabilities or mission critical information (e.g. goal location) that the followers lack, and this makes the leader crucial for the mission’s success. However, this also makes the leader a vulnerability -an external adversary who wishes to sa...