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Published June 6, 2022 | Version v1
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Explaining deep reinforcement learning decisions in complex multiagent settings: towards enabling automation in air traffic flow management

  • 1. University of Piraeus
  • 2. Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems
  • 3. ISA Software
  • 4. CRIDA

Description

With the objective to enhance human performance and maximize engagement during the performance of tasks, we aim to advance automation for decision making in complex and large-scale multi-agent settings. Towards these goals, this paper presents a deep multi agent reinforcement learning method for resolving demand - capacity imbalances in real-world Air Traffic Management settings with thousands of agents. Agents comprising the system are able to jointly decide on the measures to be applied to resolve imbalances, while they provide explanations on their decisions: This information is rendered and explored via appropriate visual analytics tools. The paper presents how major challenges of scalability and complexity are addressed, and provides results from evaluation tests that show the abilities of models to provide high-quality solutions and high-fidelity explanations.

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Funding

TAPAS – Towards an Automated and exPlainable ATM System 892358
European Commission