Multiagent decision making and learning in urban environments

Abstract

Our increasingly interconnected urban environments provide several opportunities to deploy intelligent agents-from self-driving cars, ships to aerial drones-that promise to radically improve productivity and safety. Achieving coordination among agents in such urban settings presents several algorithmic challenges-ability to scale to thousands of agents, addressing uncertainty, and partial observability in the environment. In addition, accurate domain models need to be learned from data that is often noisy and available only at an aggregate level. In this paper, I will overview some of our recent contributions towards developing planning and reinforcement learning strategies to address several such challenges present in large-scale urban multiagent systems.