Multiagent Decision Making For Maritime Traffic Management

Authors

  • Arambam James Singh Singapore Management University
  • Duc Thien Nguyen Singapore Management University
  • Akshat Kumar Singapore Management University
  • Hoong Chuin Lau Singapore Management University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v33i01.33016171

Abstract

We address the problem of maritime traffic management in busy waterways to increase the safety of navigation by reducing congestion. We model maritime traffic as a large multiagent systems with individual vessels as agents, and VTS authority as the regulatory agent. We develop a maritime traffic simulator based on historical traffic data that incorporates realistic domain constraints such as uncertain and asynchronous movement of vessels. We also develop a traffic coordination approach that provides speed recommendation to vessels in different zones. We exploit the nature of collective interactions among agents to develop a scalable policy gradient approach that can scale up to real world problems. Empirical results on synthetic and real world problems show that our approach can significantly reduce congestion while keeping the traffic throughput high.

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Published

2019-07-17

How to Cite

Singh, A. J., Nguyen, D. T., Kumar, A., & Lau, H. C. (2019). Multiagent Decision Making For Maritime Traffic Management. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 33(01), 6171-6178. https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v33i01.33016171

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AAAI Technical Track: Multiagent Systems