A Reinforcement Learning Approach to Sensing Design in Resource-Constrained Wireless Networked Control Systems

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Auteurs principaux: Ballotta, Luca, Peserico, Giovanni, Zanini, Francesco
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author Ballotta, Luca
Peserico, Giovanni
Zanini, Francesco
author_facet Ballotta, Luca
Peserico, Giovanni
Zanini, Francesco
contents In this paper, we consider a wireless network of smart sensors (agents) that monitor a dynamical process and send measurements to a base station that performs global monitoring and decision-making. Smart sensors are equipped with both sensing and computation, and can either send raw measurements or process them prior to transmission. Constrained agent resources raise a fundamental latency-accuracy trade-off. On the one hand, raw measurements are inaccurate but fast to produce. On the other hand, data processing on resource-constrained platforms generates accurate measurements at the cost of non-negligible computation latency. Further, if processed data are also compressed, latency caused by wireless communication might be higher for raw measurements. Hence, it is challenging to decide when and where sensors in the network should transmit raw measurements or leverage time-consuming local processing. To tackle this design problem, we propose a Reinforcement Learning approach to learn an efficient policy that dynamically decides when measurements are to be processed at each sensor. Effectiveness of our proposed approach is validated through a numerical simulation with case study on smart sensing motivated by the Internet of Drones.
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spellingShingle A Reinforcement Learning Approach to Sensing Design in Resource-Constrained Wireless Networked Control Systems
Ballotta, Luca
Peserico, Giovanni
Zanini, Francesco
Systems and Control
Machine Learning
Robotics
68M18, 93C43 (Primary) 93B70, 68T05, 93C43 (Secondary)
I.2.9; I.2.11
In this paper, we consider a wireless network of smart sensors (agents) that monitor a dynamical process and send measurements to a base station that performs global monitoring and decision-making. Smart sensors are equipped with both sensing and computation, and can either send raw measurements or process them prior to transmission. Constrained agent resources raise a fundamental latency-accuracy trade-off. On the one hand, raw measurements are inaccurate but fast to produce. On the other hand, data processing on resource-constrained platforms generates accurate measurements at the cost of non-negligible computation latency. Further, if processed data are also compressed, latency caused by wireless communication might be higher for raw measurements. Hence, it is challenging to decide when and where sensors in the network should transmit raw measurements or leverage time-consuming local processing. To tackle this design problem, we propose a Reinforcement Learning approach to learn an efficient policy that dynamically decides when measurements are to be processed at each sensor. Effectiveness of our proposed approach is validated through a numerical simulation with case study on smart sensing motivated by the Internet of Drones.
title A Reinforcement Learning Approach to Sensing Design in Resource-Constrained Wireless Networked Control Systems
topic Systems and Control
Machine Learning
Robotics
68M18, 93C43 (Primary) 93B70, 68T05, 93C43 (Secondary)
I.2.9; I.2.11
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.00703