Cooperative and distributed decision-making in a multi-agent perception system for improvised land mines detection

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dc.contributor.authorFlorez-Lozano, Johana
dc.contributor.authorCaraffini, Fabio
dc.contributor.authorParra, Carlos
dc.contributor.authorGongora, Mario Augusto
dc.date.acceptance2020-06-21
dc.date.accessioned2020-06-30T10:37:04Z
dc.date.available2020-06-30T10:37:04Z
dc.date.issued2020-06-25
dc.descriptionThe file attached to this record is the author's final peer reviewed version. The Publisher's final version can be found by following the DOI linken
dc.description.abstractThis work presents a novel intelligent system designed using a multi-agent hardware platform to detect improvised explosive devices concealed in the ground. Each agent is equipped with a different sensor, (i.e. a ground-penetrating radar, a thermal sensor and three cameras each covering a different spectrum) and processes dedicated AI decision-making capabilities. The proposed system has a unique hardware structure, with a distributed design and effective selection of sensors, and a novel multi-phase and cooperative decision-making framework. Agents operate independently via a customised logic adjusting their sensor positions - to achieve optimal acquisition; performing a preliminary “local decision-making” - to classify buried objects; sharing information with the other agents. Once sufficient information is shared by the agents, a collaborative behaviour emerges in the so-called “cooperative decision-making” process, which performs the final detection. In this paper, 120 variations of the proposed system, obtained by combining both classic aggregation operators as well as advanced neural and fuzzy systems, are presented, tested and evaluated. Results show a good detection accuracy and robustness to environmental and data sets changes, in particular when the cooperative decision-making is implemented with the neuroevolution paradigm.en
dc.exception.ref2021codes253ben
dc.funderOther external funder (please detail below)en
dc.funder.otherColcienciasen
dc.funder.otherPontificia Universidad Javerianaen
dc.identifier.citationFlorez-Lozano, J., Caraffini, F., Parra, C., Gongora, M. (2020) Cooperative and distributed decision-making in a multi-agent perception system for improvised land mines detection. Information Fusion, 64, pp. 32-49.en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2020.06.009
dc.identifier.issn1566-2535
dc.identifier.urihttps://dora.dmu.ac.uk/handle/2086/19873
dc.language.isoenen
dc.peerreviewedYesen
dc.projectidGrant number 647en
dc.projectidVRI-05en
dc.publisherElsevieren
dc.researchinstituteInstitute of Artificial Intelligence (IAI)en
dc.subjectland mine detectionen
dc.subjectimprovised explosive deviceen
dc.subjectneuroevolutionen
dc.subjectgenetic fuzzy systemsen
dc.subjectfeature extractionen
dc.subjectsensor fusionen
dc.titleCooperative and distributed decision-making in a multi-agent perception system for improvised land mines detectionen
dc.typeArticleen

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