Enhancing Exploration Efficiency of Fixed-Wing UAVs Through Intelligent Decision-Making and Advanced Control Integration

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Abstract

With the ongoing development of intelligent technologies, fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are gaining prominence across diverse sectors. This study focuses on complex environment exploration. It employs the Dyna-Q reinforcement learning algorithm to derive optimal waypoints in obstacle-rich settings. These waypoints are pivotal for task allocation, ensuring judicious deployment of UAV clusters for targeted exploration. Concurrently, B-spline techniques refine these waypoints into feasible flight trajectories for UAVs. Subsequently, distributed model predictive control (DMPC) is utilized to maintain a designated cluster configuration. This DMPC controller ensures trajectory tracking along optimized paths, facilitating thorough area exploration. Then the approach is validated and evaluated through simulation experiments using a laboratory-developed simulation platform.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of 2023 7th Chinese Conference on Swarm Intelligence and Cooperative Control - Swarm Guidance Technologies
EditorsGuo-Ping Jiang, Mengyi Wang, Zhang Ren
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages231-242
Number of pages12
ISBN (Print)9789819733392
DOIs
StatePublished - 2024
Event7th Chinese Conference on Swarm Intelligence and Cooperative Control, CCSICC 2023 - Nanjing, China
Duration: 24 Nov 202327 Nov 2023

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Electrical Engineering
Volume1204 LNEE
ISSN (Print)1876-1100
ISSN (Electronic)1876-1119

Conference

Conference7th Chinese Conference on Swarm Intelligence and Cooperative Control, CCSICC 2023
Country/TerritoryChina
CityNanjing
Period24/11/2327/11/23

Keywords

  • DMPC
  • dyna-q learning
  • intelligent decision

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