JOURNAL ARTICLE

Multi-UAV Path Planning for Wireless Data Harvesting With Deep Reinforcement Learning

Harald BayerleinMirco TheileMarco CaccamoDavid Gesbert

Year: 2021 Journal:   IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society Vol: 2 Pages: 1171-1187   Publisher: IEEE Communications Society

Abstract

Modifications: UAVs can fly over small buildings and comparison between map-based and scalar input networks added; Submitted to IEEE OJ-COMS, code available under https://github.com/hbayerlein/uav_data_harvesting, article extends on arXiv:2007.00544

Keywords:
Reinforcement learning Computer science Partially observable Markov decision process Markov decision process Motion planning Data collection Distributed computing Real-time computing Artificial intelligence State space Channel (broadcasting) Process (computing) Task (project management) Wireless sensor network Path (computing) Markov process Machine learning Markov chain Computer network Robot Markov model Engineering

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Topics

UAV Applications and Optimization
Physical Sciences →  Engineering →  Aerospace Engineering
Distributed Control Multi-Agent Systems
Physical Sciences →  Computer Science →  Computer Networks and Communications
Robotic Path Planning Algorithms
Physical Sciences →  Computer Science →  Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
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