GenSwarm: Scalable Multi-Robot Code-Policy Generation and Deployment via Language Models
This addresses the problem of flexible and scalable policy generation for multi-robot systems, benefiting both robotics specialists and non-specialists, though it appears incremental as it builds on existing language model capabilities.
The paper tackles the labor-intensive process of developing control policies for multi-robot systems by introducing GenSwarm, an end-to-end system that uses large language models to automatically generate and deploy policies from natural language instructions, achieving zero-shot learning for rapid adaptation to new tasks.
The development of control policies for multi-robot systems traditionally follows a complex and labor-intensive process, often lacking the flexibility to adapt to dynamic tasks. This has motivated research on methods to automatically create control policies. However, these methods require iterative processes of manually crafting and refining objective functions, thereby prolonging the development cycle. This work introduces \textit{GenSwarm}, an end-to-end system that leverages large language models to automatically generate and deploy control policies for multi-robot tasks based on simple user instructions in natural language. As a multi-language-agent system, GenSwarm achieves zero-shot learning, enabling rapid adaptation to altered or unseen tasks. The white-box nature of the code policies ensures strong reproducibility and interpretability. With its scalable software and hardware architectures, GenSwarm supports efficient policy deployment on both simulated and real-world multi-robot systems, realizing an instruction-to-execution end-to-end functionality that could prove valuable for robotics specialists and non-specialists alike.The code of the proposed GenSwarm system is available online: https://github.com/WindyLab/GenSwarm.