UAV Routing for Enhancing the Performance of a Classifier-in-the-loop

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Main Authors: Kumar, Deepak Prakash, Rajbhandari, Pranav, McGuire, Loy, Darbha, Swaroop, Sofge, Donald
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author Kumar, Deepak Prakash
Rajbhandari, Pranav
McGuire, Loy
Darbha, Swaroop
Sofge, Donald
author_facet Kumar, Deepak Prakash
Rajbhandari, Pranav
McGuire, Loy
Darbha, Swaroop
Sofge, Donald
contents Some human-machine systems are designed so that machines (robots) gather and deliver data to remotely located operators (humans) through an interface in order to aid them in classification. The performance of a human as a (binary) classifier-in-the-loop is characterized by probabilities of correctly classifying objects of type $T$ and $F$. These two probabilities depend on the dwell time, $d$, spent collecting information at a point of interest (POI or interchangeably, target). The information gain associated with collecting information at a target is then a function of dwell time $d$ and discounted by the revisit time, $R$, i.e., the duration between consecutive revisits to the same target. The objective of the problem of routing for classification is to optimally route the vehicles and determine the optimal dwell time at each target so as to maximize the total discounted information gain while visiting every target at least once. In this paper, we make a simplifying assumption that the information gain is discounted exponentially by the revisit time; this assumption enables one to decouple the problem of routing with the problem of determining optimal dwell time at each target for a single vehicle problem. For the multi-vehicle problem, we provide a fast heuristic to obtain the allocation of targets to each vehicle and the corresponding dwell time.
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spellingShingle UAV Routing for Enhancing the Performance of a Classifier-in-the-loop
Kumar, Deepak Prakash
Rajbhandari, Pranav
McGuire, Loy
Darbha, Swaroop
Sofge, Donald
Optimization and Control
Some human-machine systems are designed so that machines (robots) gather and deliver data to remotely located operators (humans) through an interface in order to aid them in classification. The performance of a human as a (binary) classifier-in-the-loop is characterized by probabilities of correctly classifying objects of type $T$ and $F$. These two probabilities depend on the dwell time, $d$, spent collecting information at a point of interest (POI or interchangeably, target). The information gain associated with collecting information at a target is then a function of dwell time $d$ and discounted by the revisit time, $R$, i.e., the duration between consecutive revisits to the same target. The objective of the problem of routing for classification is to optimally route the vehicles and determine the optimal dwell time at each target so as to maximize the total discounted information gain while visiting every target at least once. In this paper, we make a simplifying assumption that the information gain is discounted exponentially by the revisit time; this assumption enables one to decouple the problem of routing with the problem of determining optimal dwell time at each target for a single vehicle problem. For the multi-vehicle problem, we provide a fast heuristic to obtain the allocation of targets to each vehicle and the corresponding dwell time.
title UAV Routing for Enhancing the Performance of a Classifier-in-the-loop
topic Optimization and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.08828