Distributed Agent System: Fault-Tolerant Collaboration Among Embodied Agents

This paper proposes Distributed Agent System (DAS), a device-edge-cloud framework for fault-tolerant collaboration among heterogeneous embodied agents. It reframes agent reliability from single-turn, zero-error accuracy to system-level fault tolerance for long-horizon execution under resource constraints and environmental uncertainty. The architecture has two layers: fault-tolerant alignment for improving individual agent execution reliability, and semi-formal language protocols for more reliable communication across agents. The authors position DAS as an engineering pathway for industrial embodied-agent collaboration, although the supplied abstract does not report quantitative experiments or deployment results.