Multi-UAV Decentralized Task Allocation with Intermittent Communications: the DTC algorithm
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
A new decentralized task allocation algorithm for UAVs using intermittent and asynchronous communications is presented. The proposed algorithm fosters a decentralized task consensus (DTC) across the UAVs. To increase the efficiency of the communications, the decision to communicate is based on the outputs of the task allocation procedure. Simulation results with a realistic nonlinear model of almost-lighter-than-air-vehicles are presented. Compared with a decentralized information consensus (DIC) algorithm, the DTC algorithm is demonstrated to require less communications to achieve a similar or better cooperative behavior.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.006 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.016 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it