README.md

Multiagent Systems that are Robust to Communication Loss

This repository contains the code to run the numerical experiments from the paper:

Mustafa O. Karabag*, Cyrus Neary*, and Ufuk Topcu. 2022. Planning Not to Talk: Multiagent Systems that are Robust to Communication Loss. In Proc. of the 21st International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2022), Online, May 9–13, 2022, IFAAMAS, 9 pages.

*Equal Contibution

Read the paper on Arxiv

Running the numerical experiments

To run the two-agent navigation experiment from the paper, execute

python examples/ma_gridworld_total_corr_add_end_state.py

and to run the three-agent navigation experiment from the supplementary material, execute

python examples/run_three_agent_gridworld_add_end_state.py

Requirements

This project requires the following Python 3 packages:

• Numpy
• matplotlib
• cvxpy
• Mosek

Installation instructions using Anaconda

• Download and install Anaconda from (https://www.anaconda.com/products/individual-d).
• To create a new virtual environment run:

  • conda create -n mac python=3.9

• Activate the virtual environment:

  • conda activate mac

• Install the necessary packages:

  • conda install numpy

  • conda install matplotlib

• Follow the OS-specific installation instructions for cvxpy (https://www.cvxpy.org/install/) and Mosek (https://docs.mosek.com/9.2/pythonapi/install-interface.html).