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Automating the Design of Efficient Distributed Behaviours for a Swarm of UAVs
Duflo, Gabriel; Danoy, Grégoire; Talbi, El-Ghazali et al.
2020In IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence, Canberra 1-4 December 2020
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Keywords :
hyper-heuristic; Q-learning; UAV swarming; distributed algorithms
Abstract :
[en] The usage of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) is gradually gaining momentum for commercial applications. The vast majority considers a single UAV, which comes with several constraints such as its range of operations or the number of sensors it can carry. Using multiple autonomous UAVs simultaneously as a swarm makes it possible to overcome these limitations. However, manually designing complex emerging behaviours like swarming is a difficult and tedious task especially for such distributed systems which performance is hardly predictable. This article therefore proposes to automate the design of UAV swarming behaviours by defining a multi-objective optimisation problem, so called Coverage of a Connected-UAV Swarm (CCUS), and designing a Q-Learning based Hyper-Heuristic (QLHH) for generating distributed CCUS heuristics. Experimental results demonstrate the capacity of QLHH to generate efficient heuristics for any instance from a given class.
Disciplines :
Computer science
Author, co-author :
Duflo, Gabriel ;  University of Luxembourg > Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SNT) > PCOG
Danoy, Grégoire  ;  University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Science, Technology and Medicine (FSTM) > Department of Computer Science (DCS)
Talbi, El-Ghazali ;  University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Science, Technology and Communication (FSTC) > Computer Science and Communications Research Unit (CSC)
Bouvry, Pascal ;  University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Science, Technology and Medicine (FSTM) > Department of Computer Science (DCS)
External co-authors :
yes
Language :
English
Title :
Automating the Design of Efficient Distributed Behaviours for a Swarm of UAVs
Publication date :
December 2020
Event name :
2020 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI)
Event place :
Canberra, Australia
Event date :
from 01-12-2020 to 04-12-2020
Audience :
International
Main work title :
IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence, Canberra 1-4 December 2020
Publisher :
IEEE
Pages :
489-496
Peer reviewed :
Peer reviewed
Focus Area :
Computational Sciences
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