Reference : Learning to Optimise a Swarm of UAVs
Scientific journals : Article
Engineering, computing & technology : Computer science
http://hdl.handle.net/10993/52566
Learning to Optimise a Swarm of UAVs
English
Duflo, Gabriel mailto [University of Luxembourg > Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SNT) > PCOG]
Danoy, Grégoire mailto [University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Science, Technology and Medicine (FSTM) > Department of Computer Science (DCS)]
Talbi, El-Ghazali mailto [University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Science, Technology and Communication (FSTC) > Computer Science and Communications Research Unit (CSC)]
Bouvry, Pascal mailto [University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Science, Technology and Medicine (FSTM) > Department of Computer Science (DCS)]
2022
Applied Sciences
12
19 9587
Yes
2076-3417
[en] The use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) has shown a drastic increase in interest in the past few years. Current applications mainly depend on single UAV operations, which face critical limitations such as mission range or resilience. Using several autonomous UAVs as a swarm is a promising approach to overcome these. However, designing an efficient swarm is a challenging task, since its global behaviour emerges solely from local decisions and interactions. These properties make classical multirobot design techniques not applicable, while evolutionary swarm robotics is typically limited to a single use case. This work, thus, proposes an automated swarming algorithm design approach, and more precisely, a generative hyper-heuristic relying on multi-objective reinforcement learning, that permits us to obtain not only efficient but also reusable swarming behaviours. Experimental results on a three-objective variant of the Coverage of a Connected UAV Swarm problem demonstrate that it not only permits one to generate swarming heuristics that outperform the state-of-the-art in terms of coverage by a swarm of UAVs but also provides high stability. Indeed, it is empirically demonstrated that the model trained on a certain class of instances generates heuristics and is capable of performing well on instances with a different size or swarm density.
http://hdl.handle.net/10993/52566
10.3390/app12199587
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/12/19/9587

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