Neuromorphic Enhanced Swarm Agent Reinforcement Architecture (NESARA) for collaborative mobile robotics in edge environment
摘要
The increasing need for decentralized, cognitive behavior in cooperative mobile robots has spurred interest in low-power, swarm-inspired reinforcement designs optimized for edge platforms. This work introduces the Neuromorphic-Enhanced Swarm Agent Reinforcement Architecture (NESARA), a biologically inspired architecture that combines Glowworm Swarm Optimization (GSO) with Multi-Agent Deep Q-Learning (MADQL) and neuromorphic computation. NESARA allows distributed mobile robots to cooperatively explore, learn, and decide in real-time with negligible computational overhead. Neuromorphic units emulate spiking neural responses for power-efficient edge processing as light-weight cognitive nuclei. GSO enables clustering and spatial self-organization of dynamic agents, and MADQL enables reinforcement-based policy learning to address uncertainty, task coordination, and support collaborative decision-making. By integrating cognition into every agent via neuromorphic processing and facilitating swarm-level adaptation through GSO and MADQL, NESARA provides a context-aware and self-regulating decision layer. Performance analysis over benchmarked maze worlds and dynamic fields of obstacles proves NESARA to outperform individual GSO or MADQL systems. The architecture realizes 22.7% quicker convergence, 31.4% enhanced task accomplishment rates, and 26.8% reduced energy consumption relative to baselines. The findings confirm the validity of NESARA’s utility in creating robust, real-time, and smart multi-robotic ecosystems under edge computing limitations.