Path Planning of Cellular-Connected UAV Travelling Fixed Way Points Using Reinforcement Learning

Yunchu Yang, Junqi Bao, Yapeng Wang, Zhenyu Du, Xu Yang

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Abstract

With the development of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) and cellular networks, path planning for cellular-connected UAV has become a very popular research area. Previous researches on path planning for cellular-connected UAV focused on point-to-point path planning which can be solved by estimate approximate Shortest Path Problem (SPP). However, cellular-connected UAV has extra constraints that it must keep a good connection with Ground Base Stations (GBS) at all times to make the UAV stay in control, thus make the problem more challenging. In this paper, we studied path planning for cellular-connected UAV in a specific scenario where UAV have to visit multiple points while keeping connected with GBSs and get back to where it starts finally. In other words, we want to study multi-points path planning which can be abstracted as Travel Salesman Problem (TSP). In order to solve this kind of problem, a reinforcement learning based model has been proposed and developed and the experiment results of our model have proved that it can solve the UAV path planning problem with a good performance.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2022 IEEE 8th International Conference on Computer and Communications, ICCC 2022
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages752-757
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781665450515
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2022
Event8th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Communications, ICCC 2022 - Virtual, Online, China
Duration: 9 Dec 202212 Dec 2022

Publication series

Name2022 IEEE 8th International Conference on Computer and Communications, ICCC 2022

Conference

Conference8th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Communications, ICCC 2022
Country/TerritoryChina
CityVirtual, Online
Period9/12/2212/12/22

Keywords

  • TSP
  • UAV
  • cellular-network
  • path planning
  • pointer network
  • reinforcement learning

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