25 November 2025
Artificial systems can be engineered with varying degrees of awareness across multiple dimensions, shaping their adaptive capabilities. Yet, the impact of awareness is currently not measured in a systematic manner that enables robust cross-system comparisons. A more comprehensive approach to measuring awareness could provide critical insights for engineering artificial systems.
In this work, EMERGE partners propose a novel and tractable approach to measure the impact of awareness on system performance, structured around distinct dimensions of awareness – temporal, spatial, metacognitive, self and agentive. Each dimension is linked to specific capacities and tasks. Specifically, the authors demonstrate their approach through a swarm robotics intralogistics scenario, where they assess the influence of two dimensions of awareness – spatial and self – on the performance of the swarm in a collective transport task. Their results reveal how increased abilities along these awareness dimensions affect overall swarm efficiency. This framework represents an initial step towards quantifying awareness in, and across, artificial systems.
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