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  • Robotics
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Aerospace Engineering

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  • Operating unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) autonomously in dynamic environments presents significant challenges.
  • Enhancing UAV intelligence for mission execution, particularly maneuver decision-making, is crucial for achieving autonomy.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a deep reinforcement learning algorithm for autonomous UAV maneuver decision-making.
  • To enable UAVs to execute airdrop missions efficiently and safely in interactive environments.

Main Methods:

  • A novel maneuver decision-making algorithm utilizing deep reinforcement learning is proposed.
  • Prioritized Experience Replay is employed to construct the training dataset, accelerating convergence speed.

Main Results:

  • The algorithm generates efficient maneuvers for UAV agents.
  • Extensive experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach.

Conclusions:

  • A desirable and effective maneuver decision-making policy can be achieved through the developed algorithm.
  • The research contributes to advancing UAV autonomy in complex operational settings.