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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2021

Deep Reinforcement Learning for UAV Trajectory Design Considering Mobile Ground Users.

Wonseok Lee, Young Jeon, Taejoon Kim, Young-Il Kim

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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4 authors.

Wonseok LeeSchool of Information and Communication Engineering, Chungbuk National University, Chungju 28644, Korea.
Young JeonSchool of Information and Communication Engineering, Chungbuk National University, Chungju 28644, Korea.
Taejoon KimSchool of Information and Communication Engineering, Chungbuk National University, Chungju 28644, Korea.ORCID 0000-0001-6326-2559
Young-Il KimElectronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Daejeon 34129, Korea.ORCID 0000-0003-0395-4507

Funding

the Defense Acquisition Program Administration and Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy of Korean government 18-CM-SW-19
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A network composed of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), serving as base stations (UAV-BS network), is emerging as a promising component in next-generation communication systems. In the UAV-BS network, the optimal positioning of a UAV-BS is an essential requirement to establish line-of-sight (LoS) links for ground users. A novel deep Q-network (DQN)-based learning model enabling the optimal deployment of a UAV-BS is proposed. Moreover, without re-learning of the model and the acquisition of the path information of ground users, the proposed model presents the optimal UAV-BS trajectory while ground users move. Specifically, the proposed model optimizes the trajectory of a UAV-BS by maximizing the mean opinion score (MOS) for ground users who move to various paths. Furthermore, the proposed model is highly practical because, instead of the locations of individual mobile users, an average channel power gain is used as an input parameter. The accuracy of the proposed model is validated by comparing the results of the model with those of a mathematical optimization solver.

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reinforcement learningtrajectory optimizationunmanned aerial vehicles

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PMID34960332
PMCPMC8708867

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