Communication-Aware Asynchronous Distributed Trajectory Optimization for UAV Swarm

Fuente: arXiv
Enregistré dans:
Détails bibliographiques
Auteurs principaux: Yu, Yue, Zheng, Xiaobo, He, Shaoming
Format: Preprint
Publié: 2025
Sujets:
Accès en ligne:
Tags: Ajouter un tag
Pas de tags, Soyez le premier à ajouter un tag!
_version_ 1866912718457405440
author Yu, Yue
Zheng, Xiaobo
He, Shaoming
author_facet Yu, Yue
Zheng, Xiaobo
He, Shaoming
contents Distributed optimization offers a promising paradigm for trajectory planning in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) swarms, yet its deployment in communication-constrained environments remains challenging due to unreliable links and limited data exchange. This paper addresses this issue via a two-tier architecture explicitly designed for operation under communication constraints. We develop a Communication-Aware Asynchronous Distributed Trajectory Optimization (CA-ADTO) framework that integrates Parameterized Differential Dynamic Programming (PDDP) for local trajectory optimization of individual UAVs with an asynchronous Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (async-ADMM) for swarm-level coordination. The proposed architecture enables fully distributed optimization while substantially reducing communication overhead, making it suitable for real-world scenarios in which reliable connectivity cannot be guaranteed. The method is particularly effective in handling nonlinear dynamics and spatio-temporal coupling under communication constraints.
format Preprint
id arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2511_14994
institution arXiv
publishDate 2025
record_format arxiv
spellingShingle Communication-Aware Asynchronous Distributed Trajectory Optimization for UAV Swarm
Yu, Yue
Zheng, Xiaobo
He, Shaoming
Robotics
Distributed optimization offers a promising paradigm for trajectory planning in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) swarms, yet its deployment in communication-constrained environments remains challenging due to unreliable links and limited data exchange. This paper addresses this issue via a two-tier architecture explicitly designed for operation under communication constraints. We develop a Communication-Aware Asynchronous Distributed Trajectory Optimization (CA-ADTO) framework that integrates Parameterized Differential Dynamic Programming (PDDP) for local trajectory optimization of individual UAVs with an asynchronous Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (async-ADMM) for swarm-level coordination. The proposed architecture enables fully distributed optimization while substantially reducing communication overhead, making it suitable for real-world scenarios in which reliable connectivity cannot be guaranteed. The method is particularly effective in handling nonlinear dynamics and spatio-temporal coupling under communication constraints.
title Communication-Aware Asynchronous Distributed Trajectory Optimization for UAV Swarm
topic Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.14994