Research on uncertainty in multi-agent road surface monitoring
2026.
T.14.
№ 2.
id 2210
Podberezkin A.A.
DOI: 10.26102/2310-6018/2026.53.2.009
The relevance of this study is determined by the fact that, in road-infrastructure monitoring platforms, errors at the stage of detection and interpretation of object conditions can propagate into normative and managerial decision errors, especially under real-world acquisition conditions (shadows, glare, wet/snow-covered pavement, contamination, and ambiguous defect boundaries), where the risk of misclassification and inaccurate localization increases. This is critical for threshold-based normative assessment, since even small inaccuracies may change the condition category and, consequently, lead either to unjustified maintenance assignments or to missing hazardous defects. Therefore, this paper investigates the use of detection uncertainty for road-surface defect monitoring within a multi-agent pipeline, where observation results are transferred between components together with the processing context via the Model Context Protocol as a unified mechanism for exchanging events, metadata, and interpretation parameters. The main approach is to build a computational pipeline that includes video-data preprocessing, defect detection, computation of the uncertainty indicator H(p) from the class-probability distribution, assignment of the status "automatic/validation/refinement" subsequent normative interpretation, and aggregation over road-network segments. To ensure reproducibility, each run is recorded as a unified "experiment context" (scene/frame identifier, model version, threshold parameters, decision status), enabling comparable mode-to-mode evaluation and auditing of discrepancy causes. Verification is based on comparing normative decisions with expert assessment and analyzing how the share of erroneous normative decisions depends on the automatic-decision threshold for H(p), while the risk-oriented logic routes high-uncertainty detections to validation and reduces the probability of errors in borderline cases. The results show that context logging via Model Context Protocol and accounting for H(p) improve experimental reproducibility and the soundness of normative interpretation, decreasing the risk of incorrect maintenance prioritization by separating ambiguous observations and preserving the decision rationale.
Keywords:
multi agent system, road surface monitoring, road surface defects, computer vision, detection uncertainty, normative interpretation, context logging