The path planning of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) is a critical component of rescue operation. As impacted by the continuity of the task space and the high dynamics of the aircraft, conventional approaches cannot find the optimal control strategy. Accordingly, in this study, a deep reinforcement learning (DRL)-based UAV path planning method is proposed, enabling the UAV to complete the path planning in a 3D continuous environment. The deep deterministic policy gradient (DDPG) algorithm is employed to enable UAV to autonomously make decisions. Besides, to avoid obstacles, the concepts of connected area and threat function are proposed and adopted in the reward shaping. Lastly, an environment with static obstacles is built, and the agent is trained using the proposed method. As has been proved by the experiments, the proposed algorithm can fit a range of scenarios.


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    Title :

    A UAV Path Planning Method Based on Deep Reinforcement Learning


    Contributors:
    Li, Yibing (author) / Zhang, Sitong (author) / Ye, Fang (author) / Jiang, Tao (author) / Li, Yingsong (author)


    Publication date :

    2020-07-05


    Size :

    655921 byte




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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