Multi-UAV Speed Control with Collision Avoidance and Handover-aware Cell Association: DRL with Action Branching

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Main Authors: Yan, Zijiang, Jaafar, Wael, Selim, Bassant, Tabassum, Hina
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Published: 2023
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author Yan, Zijiang
Jaafar, Wael
Selim, Bassant
Tabassum, Hina
author_facet Yan, Zijiang
Jaafar, Wael
Selim, Bassant
Tabassum, Hina
contents This paper presents a deep reinforcement learning solution for optimizing multi-UAV cell-association decisions and their moving velocity on a 3D aerial highway. The objective is to enhance transportation and communication performance, including collision avoidance, connectivity, and handovers. The problem is formulated as a Markov decision process (MDP) with UAVs' states defined by velocities and communication data rates. We propose a neural architecture with a shared decision module and multiple network branches, each dedicated to a specific action dimension in a 2D transportation-communication space. This design efficiently handles the multi-dimensional action space, allowing independence for individual action dimensions. We introduce two models, Branching Dueling Q-Network (BDQ) and Branching Dueling Double Deep Q-Network (Dueling DDQN), to demonstrate the approach. Simulation results show a significant improvement of 18.32% compared to existing benchmarks.
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spellingShingle Multi-UAV Speed Control with Collision Avoidance and Handover-aware Cell Association: DRL with Action Branching
Yan, Zijiang
Jaafar, Wael
Selim, Bassant
Tabassum, Hina
Machine Learning
Robotics
Systems and Control
This paper presents a deep reinforcement learning solution for optimizing multi-UAV cell-association decisions and their moving velocity on a 3D aerial highway. The objective is to enhance transportation and communication performance, including collision avoidance, connectivity, and handovers. The problem is formulated as a Markov decision process (MDP) with UAVs' states defined by velocities and communication data rates. We propose a neural architecture with a shared decision module and multiple network branches, each dedicated to a specific action dimension in a 2D transportation-communication space. This design efficiently handles the multi-dimensional action space, allowing independence for individual action dimensions. We introduce two models, Branching Dueling Q-Network (BDQ) and Branching Dueling Double Deep Q-Network (Dueling DDQN), to demonstrate the approach. Simulation results show a significant improvement of 18.32% compared to existing benchmarks.
title Multi-UAV Speed Control with Collision Avoidance and Handover-aware Cell Association: DRL with Action Branching
topic Machine Learning
Robotics
Systems and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.13158