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Dianbo Jia1, Ganliang Wang2, Hongfei Bu2

  • 1Unit 32149, People's Liberation Army, Luoyang, 471100, Henan, China. njax4223@outlook.com.

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|June 18, 2026
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This study introduces DT-GAT-MARL for cooperative counter-drone defense, improving dynamic task allocation. The novel framework enhances interception success rates in complex, evolving scenarios.

Area of Science:

  • Robotics and Control Systems
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Defense Technology

Background:

  • Dynamic task allocation is critical in cooperative counter-drone defense, but current multi-agent reinforcement learning methods struggle with unpredictable target behavior and evolving operational topologies.
  • Existing approaches lack explicit mechanisms to adapt to changing inter-agent and agent-target relationships during engagements.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose DT-GAT-MARL, a hierarchical framework for dynamic interception task allocation in cooperative counter-drone defense.
  • To address the limitations of current multi-agent reinforcement learning in handling evolving operational topologies and unpredictable target dynamics.

Main Methods:

  • A hierarchical framework pairing a Dynamic-Topology Graph Attention Network (DT-GAT) for strategic allocation with Multi-Agent Proximal Policy Optimization (MAPPO) for tactical maneuver control.
Keywords:
Counter-drone defenseDynamic task allocationGraph attention networkHierarchical decision-makingMulti-agent reinforcement learning

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  • DT-GAT incorporates a masking mechanism for dynamic graph updates, learnable edge-feature biases for spatial and urgency information, and a Gumbel-Softmax head for differentiable discrete assignment.
  • A dual-frequency architecture separates allocation and maneuvering timescales to mitigate assignment oscillations.

    • Main Results:

    • DT-GAT-MARL demonstrated superior performance in dynamic intrusion scenarios, outperforming the strongest baseline by 10.3 percentage points.
    • The framework achieved an 87.3% effective reallocation rate and maintained assignment oscillation below 9.6% across various engagement scales (4v4 to 12v12).
    • Ablation studies identified learnable edge-feature bias as the most crucial component for performance.

    Conclusions:

    • The proposed DT-GAT-MARL framework effectively addresses the challenge of dynamic task allocation in cooperative counter-drone defense.
    • The integration of DT-GAT and MAPPO, with specific design choices in DT-GAT, significantly improves interception success and adaptability in complex environments.
    • Edge-feature bias is a key innovation, highlighting its importance in capturing critical relational information for effective allocation.