Multiple unmanned aerial vehicle coordinated strikes against ground targets based on an improved multi-agent deep deterministic policy gradient algorithm

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Názov: Multiple unmanned aerial vehicle coordinated strikes against ground targets based on an improved multi-agent deep deterministic policy gradient algorithm
Autori: Wei Li, Xin Chen, Wei Yu, Mingyang Xie
Zdroj: Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part I: Journal of Systems and Control Engineering.
Informácie o vydavateľovi: SAGE Publications, 2024.
Rok vydania: 2024
Predmety: 0203 mechanical engineering, 0103 physical sciences, 02 engineering and technology, 01 natural sciences
Popis: With the development of swarm intelligence, multi-unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) cooperation in uncertain dynamic environments has been able to safely and efficiently realize all-round strikes on ground targets. However, the limited life span of UAV onboard batteries challenges the cooperative strikes against the ground targets. To address this challenge, this paper proposes an improved multi-agent deep deterministic policy gradient (i-MADDPG) algorithm for energy-saving cooperative strikes of ground targets. Introducing a sensor fusion layer and self-attention mechanism to the actor network helps the UAVs collect more comprehensive information and filter the collected data, resulting in more accurate environmental perception. In addition, importing an egocentric state representation mechanism into the critic network contributes to the computation of different Q-values for different UAV observation states, which ensures each UAV can make appropriate decisions based on its own state. Simulation experiments are conducted to validate the performance of the improved MADDPG algorithm. The results show that the success rate of ground target strikes of the proposed algorithm is improved by 29.5%, and the collision rate is reduced compared with the traditional MADDPG algorithm.
Druh dokumentu: Article
Jazyk: English
ISSN: 2041-3041
0959-6518
DOI: 10.1177/09596518241291185
Rights: URL: https://journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license
Prístupové číslo: edsair.doi...........1756f1be2ce6c4be48ce0305f86f2c3d
Databáza: OpenAIRE
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Abstrakt:With the development of swarm intelligence, multi-unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) cooperation in uncertain dynamic environments has been able to safely and efficiently realize all-round strikes on ground targets. However, the limited life span of UAV onboard batteries challenges the cooperative strikes against the ground targets. To address this challenge, this paper proposes an improved multi-agent deep deterministic policy gradient (i-MADDPG) algorithm for energy-saving cooperative strikes of ground targets. Introducing a sensor fusion layer and self-attention mechanism to the actor network helps the UAVs collect more comprehensive information and filter the collected data, resulting in more accurate environmental perception. In addition, importing an egocentric state representation mechanism into the critic network contributes to the computation of different Q-values for different UAV observation states, which ensures each UAV can make appropriate decisions based on its own state. Simulation experiments are conducted to validate the performance of the improved MADDPG algorithm. The results show that the success rate of ground target strikes of the proposed algorithm is improved by 29.5%, and the collision rate is reduced compared with the traditional MADDPG algorithm.
ISSN:20413041
09596518
DOI:10.1177/09596518241291185