Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning-Based Computation Offloading for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Post-Disaster Rescue

Lixing Wang, Huirong Jiao · 2024

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Lixing Wang and Huirong Jiao present a 2024 study on drones sharing computing work after disasters. Rescue drones see and sense a lot but carry small batteries and weak processors. They must offload heavy tasks to edge servers, and several drones must coordinate who sends what.

Their algorithm teaches a team of drone agents to cooperate, guided by a shared critic network. Experience is sorted into good and bad buffers, so agents learn from successes and failures separately, cutting wasted effort. Simulations tuned the key settings first. Against two rival methods, the new algorithm achieved the lowest total system cost, with better stability and scaling as the fleet grows. The authors aim it at real rescue deployments.

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CREATORLixing Wang, Huirong Jiao
YEAR2024
COLLECTIONPAPERS
FORMATTXT
FILE SIZE54 KB
VERSION1.0
LICENSECC BY 4.0
RIGHTSCC BY
SOURCEEurope PMC

Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC11679107

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