Mobile CrowdSensing(MCS)is a promising sensing paradigm that recruits users to cooperatively perform sensing tasks.Recently,unmanned aerial vehicles(UAVs)as the powerful sensing devices are used to replace user partic...Mobile CrowdSensing(MCS)is a promising sensing paradigm that recruits users to cooperatively perform sensing tasks.Recently,unmanned aerial vehicles(UAVs)as the powerful sensing devices are used to replace user participation and carry out some special tasks,such as epidemic monitoring and earthquakes rescue.In this paper,we focus on scheduling UAVs to sense the task Point-of-Interests(PoIs)with different frequency coverage requirements.To accomplish the sensing task,the scheduling strategy needs to consider the coverage requirement,geographic fairness and energy charging simultaneously.We consider the complex interaction among UAVs and propose a grouping multi-agent deep reinforcement learning approach(G-MADDPG)to schedule UAVs distributively.G-MADDPG groups all UAVs into some teams by a distance-based clustering algorithm(DCA),then it regards each team as an agent.In this way,G-MADDPG solves the problem that the training time of traditional MADDPG is too long to converge when the number of UAVs is large,and the trade-off between training time and result accuracy could be controlled flexibly by adjusting the number of teams.Extensive simulation results show that our scheduling strategy has better performance compared with three baselines and is flexible in balancing training time and result accuracy.展开更多
As joint operations have become a key trend in modern military development,unmanned aerial vehicles(UAVs)play an increasingly important role in enhancing the intelligence and responsiveness of combat systems.However,t...As joint operations have become a key trend in modern military development,unmanned aerial vehicles(UAVs)play an increasingly important role in enhancing the intelligence and responsiveness of combat systems.However,the heterogeneity of aircraft,partial observability,and dynamic uncertainty in operational airspace pose significant challenges to autonomous collision avoidance using traditional methods.To address these issues,this paper proposes an adaptive collision avoidance approach for UAVs based on deep reinforcement learning.First,a unified uncertainty model incorporating dynamic wind fields is constructed to capture the complexity of joint operational environments.Then,to effectively handle the heterogeneity between manned and unmanned aircraft and the limitations of dynamic observations,a sector-based partial observation mechanism is designed.A Dynamic Threat Prioritization Assessment algorithm is also proposed to evaluate potential collision threats from multiple dimensions,including time to closest approach,minimum separation distance,and aircraft type.Furthermore,a Hierarchical Prioritized Experience Replay(HPER)mechanism is introduced,which classifies experience samples into high,medium,and low priority levels to preferentially sample critical experiences,thereby improving learning efficiency and accelerating policy convergence.Simulation results show that the proposed HPER-D3QN algorithm outperforms existing methods in terms of learning speed,environmental adaptability,and robustness,significantly enhancing collision avoidance performance and convergence rate.Finally,transfer experiments on a high-fidelity battlefield airspace simulation platform validate the proposed method's deployment potential and practical applicability in complex,real-world joint operational scenarios.展开更多
With the increasing maturity of multi-UAV technology and its broad applications in scenarios such as UAV roundup tasks,this paper proposes a novel approach to enhance interception efficiency and system robustness by a...With the increasing maturity of multi-UAV technology and its broad applications in scenarios such as UAV roundup tasks,this paper proposes a novel approach to enhance interception efficiency and system robustness by addressing insufficient historical data utilization and inadequate environmental explo-ration.The multi-UAV roundup problem is formulated as a Markov Decision Process(MDP),and an Improved Cross-Entropy Method with Intrinsic Curiosity-enhanced Multi-Agent Twin Delayed Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient(I2C-MATD3)is designed.Specifically,an Improved Cross-Entropy Method(ICEM)based on global elite samples rapidly optimizes training strategies while generating extensive experience for a Multi-Agent Twin Delayed Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient algorithm augmented with intrinsic curiosity rewards(IC-MATD3).In turn,IC-MATD3 guides the optimization direction of ICEM,enabling a synergistic interaction that facilitates effective historical data exploitation and pro-active environmental exploration for UAV agents to accomplish roundup tasks.Experiments in complex scenarios demonstrate that the proposed algorithm achieves superior training efficiency and conver-gence performance compared to state-of-the-art multi-agent reinforcement learning(MARL)methods.Robustness tests and ablation experiments further validate its enhanced generalizability and robustness.展开更多
Deep reinforcement learning algorithms are revolutionizing intelligent decision-making in air combat,drawing widespread attention and extensive research.However,air combat agents trained with these algorithms face sig...Deep reinforcement learning algorithms are revolutionizing intelligent decision-making in air combat,drawing widespread attention and extensive research.However,air combat agents trained with these algorithms face significant challenges,such as limited decision-making capacities due to adversarial training against relatively fixed and singular expert strategies,and a lack of interpretability and reliability in their decisionmaking processes.To tackle these issues,this paper proposes a self-play training mechanism based on policy switching and opponent selection,allowing air combat agents to refine their capabilities via engaging with previous versions of themselves.Additionally,an explainable decision tree model is developed to clarify the decision logic of these agents.Simulations and results demonstrate that the proposed self-play training approach significantly enhances the decision-making abilities of air combat agents,with late-stage agents showing a 38%improvement over early-stage agents in confrontations with an expert strategy.Moreover,the explainable decision tree model effectively elucidates the decision logic and achieves an 86%win rate against the expert strategy,comparable to the 88%win rate of the air combat agents.展开更多
To solve the problem of multi-target hunting by an unmanned surface vehicle(USV)fleet,a hunting algorithm based on multi-agent reinforcement learning is proposed.Firstly,the hunting environment and kinematic model wit...To solve the problem of multi-target hunting by an unmanned surface vehicle(USV)fleet,a hunting algorithm based on multi-agent reinforcement learning is proposed.Firstly,the hunting environment and kinematic model without boundary constraints are built,and the criteria for successful target capture are given.Then,the cooperative hunting problem of a USV fleet is modeled as a decentralized partially observable Markov decision process(Dec-POMDP),and a distributed partially observable multitarget hunting Proximal Policy Optimization(DPOMH-PPO)algorithm applicable to USVs is proposed.In addition,an observation model,a reward function and the action space applicable to multi-target hunting tasks are designed.To deal with the dynamic change of observational feature dimension input by partially observable systems,a feature embedding block is proposed.By combining the two feature compression methods of column-wise max pooling(CMP)and column-wise average-pooling(CAP),observational feature encoding is established.Finally,the centralized training and decentralized execution framework is adopted to complete the training of hunting strategy.Each USV in the fleet shares the same policy and perform actions independently.Simulation experiments have verified the effectiveness of the DPOMH-PPO algorithm in the test scenarios with different numbers of USVs.Moreover,the advantages of the proposed model are comprehensively analyzed from the aspects of algorithm performance,migration effect in task scenarios and self-organization capability after being damaged,the potential deployment and application of DPOMH-PPO in the real environment is verified.展开更多
In the evolutionary game of the same task for groups,the changes in game rules,personal interests,the crowd size,and external supervision cause uncertain effects on individual decision-making and game results.In the M...In the evolutionary game of the same task for groups,the changes in game rules,personal interests,the crowd size,and external supervision cause uncertain effects on individual decision-making and game results.In the Markov decision framework,a single-task multi-decision evolutionary game model based on multi-agent reinforcement learning is proposed to explore the evolutionary rules in the process of a game.The model can improve the result of a evolutionary game and facilitate the completion of the task.First,based on the multi-agent theory,to solve the existing problems in the original model,a negative feedback tax penalty mechanism is proposed to guide the strategy selection of individuals in the group.In addition,in order to evaluate the evolutionary game results of the group in the model,a calculation method of the group intelligence level is defined.Secondly,the Q-learning algorithm is used to improve the guiding effect of the negative feedback tax penalty mechanism.In the model,the selection strategy of the Q-learning algorithm is improved and a bounded rationality evolutionary game strategy is proposed based on the rule of evolutionary games and the consideration of the bounded rationality of individuals.Finally,simulation results show that the proposed model can effectively guide individuals to choose cooperation strategies which are beneficial to task completion and stability under different negative feedback factor values and different group sizes,so as to improve the group intelligence level.展开更多
In this paper, the reinforcement learning method for cooperative multi-agent systems(MAS) with incremental number of agents is studied. The existing multi-agent reinforcement learning approaches deal with the MAS with...In this paper, the reinforcement learning method for cooperative multi-agent systems(MAS) with incremental number of agents is studied. The existing multi-agent reinforcement learning approaches deal with the MAS with a specific number of agents, and can learn well-performed policies. However, if there is an increasing number of agents, the previously learned in may not perform well in the current scenario. The new agents need to learn from scratch to find optimal policies with others,which may slow down the learning speed of the whole team. To solve that problem, in this paper, we propose a new algorithm to take full advantage of the historical knowledge which was learned before, and transfer it from the previous agents to the new agents. Since the previous agents have been trained well in the source environment, they are treated as teacher agents in the target environment. Correspondingly, the new agents are called student agents. To enable the student agents to learn from the teacher agents, we first modify the input nodes of the networks for teacher agents to adapt to the current environment. Then, the teacher agents take the observations of the student agents as input, and output the advised actions and values as supervising information. Finally, the student agents combine the reward from the environment and the supervising information from the teacher agents, and learn the optimal policies with modified loss functions. By taking full advantage of the knowledge of teacher agents, the search space for the student agents will be reduced significantly, which can accelerate the learning speed of the holistic system. The proposed algorithm is verified in some multi-agent simulation environments, and its efficiency has been demonstrated by the experiment results.展开更多
Future unmanned battles desperately require intelli-gent combat policies,and multi-agent reinforcement learning offers a promising solution.However,due to the complexity of combat operations and large size of the comb...Future unmanned battles desperately require intelli-gent combat policies,and multi-agent reinforcement learning offers a promising solution.However,due to the complexity of combat operations and large size of the combat group,this task suffers from credit assignment problem more than other rein-forcement learning tasks.This study uses reward shaping to relieve the credit assignment problem and improve policy train-ing for the new generation of large-scale unmanned combat operations.We first prove that multiple reward shaping func-tions would not change the Nash Equilibrium in stochastic games,providing theoretical support for their use.According to the characteristics of combat operations,we propose tactical reward shaping(TRS)that comprises maneuver shaping advice and threat assessment-based attack shaping advice.Then,we investigate the effects of different types and combinations of shaping advice on combat policies through experiments.The results show that TRS improves both the efficiency and attack accuracy of combat policies,with the combination of maneuver reward shaping advice and ally-focused attack shaping advice achieving the best performance compared with that of the base-line strategy.展开更多
The scale of ground-to-air confrontation task assignments is large and needs to deal with many concurrent task assignments and random events.Aiming at the problems where existing task assignment methods are applied to...The scale of ground-to-air confrontation task assignments is large and needs to deal with many concurrent task assignments and random events.Aiming at the problems where existing task assignment methods are applied to ground-to-air confrontation,there is low efficiency in dealing with complex tasks,and there are interactive conflicts in multiagent systems.This study proposes a multiagent architecture based on a one-general agent with multiple narrow agents(OGMN)to reduce task assignment conflicts.Considering the slow speed of traditional dynamic task assignment algorithms,this paper proposes the proximal policy optimization for task assignment of general and narrow agents(PPOTAGNA)algorithm.The algorithm based on the idea of the optimal assignment strategy algorithm and combined with the training framework of deep reinforcement learning(DRL)adds a multihead attention mechanism and a stage reward mechanism to the bilateral band clipping PPO algorithm to solve the problem of low training efficiency.Finally,simulation experiments are carried out in the digital battlefield.The multiagent architecture based on OGMN combined with the PPO-TAGNA algorithm can obtain higher rewards faster and has a higher win ratio.By analyzing agent behavior,the efficiency,superiority and rationality of resource utilization of this method are verified.展开更多
Autonomous umanned aerial vehicle(UAV) manipulation is necessary for the defense department to execute tactical missions given by commanders in the future unmanned battlefield. A large amount of research has been devo...Autonomous umanned aerial vehicle(UAV) manipulation is necessary for the defense department to execute tactical missions given by commanders in the future unmanned battlefield. A large amount of research has been devoted to improving the autonomous decision-making ability of UAV in an interactive environment, where finding the optimal maneuvering decisionmaking policy became one of the key issues for enabling the intelligence of UAV. In this paper, we propose a maneuvering decision-making algorithm for autonomous air-delivery based on deep reinforcement learning under the guidance of expert experience. Specifically, we refine the guidance towards area and guidance towards specific point tasks for the air-delivery process based on the traditional air-to-surface fire control methods.Moreover, we construct the UAV maneuvering decision-making model based on Markov decision processes(MDPs). Specifically, we present a reward shaping method for the guidance towards area and guidance towards specific point tasks using potential-based function and expert-guided advice. The proposed algorithm could accelerate the convergence of the maneuvering decision-making policy and increase the stability of the policy in terms of the output during the later stage of training process. The effectiveness of the proposed maneuvering decision-making policy is illustrated by the curves of training parameters and extensive experimental results for testing the trained policy.展开更多
Equipment development planning(EDP)is usually a long-term process often performed in an environment with high uncertainty.The traditional multi-stage dynamic programming cannot cope with this kind of uncertainty with ...Equipment development planning(EDP)is usually a long-term process often performed in an environment with high uncertainty.The traditional multi-stage dynamic programming cannot cope with this kind of uncertainty with unpredictable situations.To deal with this problem,a multi-stage EDP model based on a deep reinforcement learning(DRL)algorithm is proposed to respond quickly to any environmental changes within a reasonable range.Firstly,the basic problem of multi-stage EDP is described,and a mathematical planning model is constructed.Then,for two kinds of uncertainties(future capabi lity requirements and the amount of investment in each stage),a corresponding DRL framework is designed to define the environment,state,action,and reward function for multi-stage EDP.After that,the dueling deep Q-network(Dueling DQN)algorithm is used to solve the multi-stage EDP to generate an approximately optimal multi-stage equipment development scheme.Finally,a case of ten kinds of equipment in 100 possible environments,which are randomly generated,is used to test the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed models.The results show that the algorithm can respond instantaneously in any state of the multistage EDP environment and unlike traditional algorithms,the algorithm does not need to re-optimize the problem for any change in the environment.In addition,the algorithm can flexibly adjust at subsequent planning stages in the event of a change to the equipment capability requirements to adapt to the new requirements.展开更多
The unmanned aerial vehicle(UAV)swarm technology is one of the research hotspots in recent years.With the continuous improvement of autonomous intelligence of UAV,the swarm technology of UAV will become one of the mai...The unmanned aerial vehicle(UAV)swarm technology is one of the research hotspots in recent years.With the continuous improvement of autonomous intelligence of UAV,the swarm technology of UAV will become one of the main trends of UAV development in the future.This paper studies the behavior decision-making process of UAV swarm rendezvous task based on the double deep Q network(DDQN)algorithm.We design a guided reward function to effectively solve the problem of algorithm convergence caused by the sparse return problem in deep reinforcement learning(DRL)for the long period task.We also propose the concept of temporary storage area,optimizing the memory playback unit of the traditional DDQN algorithm,improving the convergence speed of the algorithm,and speeding up the training process of the algorithm.Different from traditional task environment,this paper establishes a continuous state-space task environment model to improve the authentication process of UAV task environment.Based on the DDQN algorithm,the collaborative tasks of UAV swarm in different task scenarios are trained.The experimental results validate that the DDQN algorithm is efficient in terms of training UAV swarm to complete the given collaborative tasks while meeting the requirements of UAV swarm for centralization and autonomy,and improving the intelligence of UAV swarm collaborative task execution.The simulation results show that after training,the proposed UAV swarm can carry out the rendezvous task well,and the success rate of the mission reaches 90%.展开更多
In consideration of the field-of-view(FOV)angle con-straint,this study focuses on the guidance problem with impact time control.A deep reinforcement learning guidance method is given for the missile to obtain the desi...In consideration of the field-of-view(FOV)angle con-straint,this study focuses on the guidance problem with impact time control.A deep reinforcement learning guidance method is given for the missile to obtain the desired impact time and meet the demand of FOV angle constraint.On basis of the framework of the proportional navigation guidance,an auxiliary control term is supplemented by the distributed deep deterministic policy gradient algorithm,in which the reward functions are developed to decrease the time-to-go error and improve the terminal guid-ance accuracy.The numerical simulation demonstrates that the missile governed by the presented deep reinforcement learning guidance law can hit the target successfully at appointed arrival time.展开更多
This paper investigates the guidance method based on reinforcement learning(RL)for the coplanar orbital interception in a continuous low-thrust scenario.The problem is formulated into a Markov decision process(MDP)mod...This paper investigates the guidance method based on reinforcement learning(RL)for the coplanar orbital interception in a continuous low-thrust scenario.The problem is formulated into a Markov decision process(MDP)model,then a welldesigned RL algorithm,experience based deep deterministic policy gradient(EBDDPG),is proposed to solve it.By taking the advantage of prior information generated through the optimal control model,the proposed algorithm not only resolves the convergence problem of the common RL algorithm,but also successfully trains an efficient deep neural network(DNN)controller for the chaser spacecraft to generate the control sequence.Numerical simulation results show that the proposed algorithm is feasible and the trained DNN controller significantly improves the efficiency over traditional optimization methods by roughly two orders of magnitude.展开更多
The guidance strategy is an extremely critical factor in determining the striking effect of the missile operation.A novel guidance law is presented by exploiting the deep reinforcement learning(DRL)with the hierarchic...The guidance strategy is an extremely critical factor in determining the striking effect of the missile operation.A novel guidance law is presented by exploiting the deep reinforcement learning(DRL)with the hierarchical deep deterministic policy gradient(DDPG)algorithm.The reward functions are constructed to minimize the line-of-sight(LOS)angle rate and avoid the threat caused by the opposed obstacles.To attenuate the chattering of the acceleration,a hierarchical reinforcement learning structure and an improved reward function with action penalty are put forward.The simulation results validate that the missile under the proposed method can hit the target successfully and keep away from the threatened areas effectively.展开更多
As an important mechanism in multi-agent interaction,communication can make agents form complex team relationships rather than constitute a simple set of multiple independent agents.However,the existing communication ...As an important mechanism in multi-agent interaction,communication can make agents form complex team relationships rather than constitute a simple set of multiple independent agents.However,the existing communication schemes can bring much timing redundancy and irrelevant messages,which seriously affects their practical application.To solve this problem,this paper proposes a targeted multiagent communication algorithm based on state control(SCTC).The SCTC uses a gating mechanism based on state control to reduce the timing redundancy of communication between agents and determines the interaction relationship between agents and the importance weight of a communication message through a series connection of hard-and self-attention mechanisms,realizing targeted communication message processing.In addition,by minimizing the difference between the fusion message generated from a real communication message of each agent and a fusion message generated from the buffered message,the correctness of the final action choice of the agent is ensured.Our evaluation using a challenging set of Star Craft II benchmarks indicates that the SCTC can significantly improve the learning performance and reduce the communication overhead between agents,thus ensuring better cooperation between agents.展开更多
Tracking maneuvering target in real time autonomously and accurately in an uncertain environment is one of the challenging missions for unmanned aerial vehicles(UAVs).In this paper,aiming to address the control proble...Tracking maneuvering target in real time autonomously and accurately in an uncertain environment is one of the challenging missions for unmanned aerial vehicles(UAVs).In this paper,aiming to address the control problem of maneuvering target tracking and obstacle avoidance,an online path planning approach for UAV is developed based on deep reinforcement learning.Through end-to-end learning powered by neural networks,the proposed approach can achieve the perception of the environment and continuous motion output control.This proposed approach includes:(1)A deep deterministic policy gradient(DDPG)-based control framework to provide learning and autonomous decision-making capability for UAVs;(2)An improved method named MN-DDPG for introducing a type of mixed noises to assist UAV with exploring stochastic strategies for online optimal planning;and(3)An algorithm of taskdecomposition and pre-training for efficient transfer learning to improve the generalization capability of UAV’s control model built based on MN-DDPG.The experimental simulation results have verified that the proposed approach can achieve good self-adaptive adjustment of UAV’s flight attitude in the tasks of maneuvering target tracking with a significant improvement in generalization capability and training efficiency of UAV tracking controller in uncertain environments.展开更多
This paper presents a deep reinforcement learning(DRL)-based motion control method to provide unmanned aerial vehicles(UAVs)with additional flexibility while flying across dynamic unknown environments autonomously.Thi...This paper presents a deep reinforcement learning(DRL)-based motion control method to provide unmanned aerial vehicles(UAVs)with additional flexibility while flying across dynamic unknown environments autonomously.This method is applicable in both military and civilian fields such as penetration and rescue.The autonomous motion control problem is addressed through motion planning,action interpretation,trajectory tracking,and vehicle movement within the DRL framework.Novel DRL algorithms are presented by combining two difference-amplifying approaches with traditional DRL methods and are used for solving the motion planning problem.An improved Lyapunov guidance vector field(LGVF)method is used to handle the trajectory-tracking problem and provide guidance control commands for the UAV.In contrast to conventional motion-control approaches,the proposed methods directly map the sensorbased detections and measurements into control signals for the inner loop of the UAV,i.e.,an end-to-end control.The training experiment results show that the novel DRL algorithms provide more than a 20%performance improvement over the state-ofthe-art DRL algorithms.The testing experiment results demonstrate that the controller based on the novel DRL and LGVF,which is only trained once in a static environment,enables the UAV to fly autonomously in various dynamic unknown environments.Thus,the proposed technique provides strong flexibility for the controller.展开更多
基金supported by the Innovation Capacity Construction Project of Jilin Development and Reform Commission(2020C017-2)Science and Technology Development Plan Project of Jilin Province(20210201082GX)。
文摘Mobile CrowdSensing(MCS)is a promising sensing paradigm that recruits users to cooperatively perform sensing tasks.Recently,unmanned aerial vehicles(UAVs)as the powerful sensing devices are used to replace user participation and carry out some special tasks,such as epidemic monitoring and earthquakes rescue.In this paper,we focus on scheduling UAVs to sense the task Point-of-Interests(PoIs)with different frequency coverage requirements.To accomplish the sensing task,the scheduling strategy needs to consider the coverage requirement,geographic fairness and energy charging simultaneously.We consider the complex interaction among UAVs and propose a grouping multi-agent deep reinforcement learning approach(G-MADDPG)to schedule UAVs distributively.G-MADDPG groups all UAVs into some teams by a distance-based clustering algorithm(DCA),then it regards each team as an agent.In this way,G-MADDPG solves the problem that the training time of traditional MADDPG is too long to converge when the number of UAVs is large,and the trade-off between training time and result accuracy could be controlled flexibly by adjusting the number of teams.Extensive simulation results show that our scheduling strategy has better performance compared with three baselines and is flexible in balancing training time and result accuracy.
基金supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(No.2022YFB4300902).
文摘As joint operations have become a key trend in modern military development,unmanned aerial vehicles(UAVs)play an increasingly important role in enhancing the intelligence and responsiveness of combat systems.However,the heterogeneity of aircraft,partial observability,and dynamic uncertainty in operational airspace pose significant challenges to autonomous collision avoidance using traditional methods.To address these issues,this paper proposes an adaptive collision avoidance approach for UAVs based on deep reinforcement learning.First,a unified uncertainty model incorporating dynamic wind fields is constructed to capture the complexity of joint operational environments.Then,to effectively handle the heterogeneity between manned and unmanned aircraft and the limitations of dynamic observations,a sector-based partial observation mechanism is designed.A Dynamic Threat Prioritization Assessment algorithm is also proposed to evaluate potential collision threats from multiple dimensions,including time to closest approach,minimum separation distance,and aircraft type.Furthermore,a Hierarchical Prioritized Experience Replay(HPER)mechanism is introduced,which classifies experience samples into high,medium,and low priority levels to preferentially sample critical experiences,thereby improving learning efficiency and accelerating policy convergence.Simulation results show that the proposed HPER-D3QN algorithm outperforms existing methods in terms of learning speed,environmental adaptability,and robustness,significantly enhancing collision avoidance performance and convergence rate.Finally,transfer experiments on a high-fidelity battlefield airspace simulation platform validate the proposed method's deployment potential and practical applicability in complex,real-world joint operational scenarios.
基金the National Key Lab-oratory of Air-based Information Perception and Fusion(Grant No.202510)the Key Research and Development Program of Shaanxi Province(Grant No.2023-GHZD-33)+2 种基金the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(Grant No.H20250607)the Open Project of the State Key Laboratory of Intelligent Game(Grant No.ZBKF-23-05)the National Nature Science Foundation of China(Grant No.62003267)to provide fund for conducting experiments.
文摘With the increasing maturity of multi-UAV technology and its broad applications in scenarios such as UAV roundup tasks,this paper proposes a novel approach to enhance interception efficiency and system robustness by addressing insufficient historical data utilization and inadequate environmental explo-ration.The multi-UAV roundup problem is formulated as a Markov Decision Process(MDP),and an Improved Cross-Entropy Method with Intrinsic Curiosity-enhanced Multi-Agent Twin Delayed Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient(I2C-MATD3)is designed.Specifically,an Improved Cross-Entropy Method(ICEM)based on global elite samples rapidly optimizes training strategies while generating extensive experience for a Multi-Agent Twin Delayed Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient algorithm augmented with intrinsic curiosity rewards(IC-MATD3).In turn,IC-MATD3 guides the optimization direction of ICEM,enabling a synergistic interaction that facilitates effective historical data exploitation and pro-active environmental exploration for UAV agents to accomplish roundup tasks.Experiments in complex scenarios demonstrate that the proposed algorithm achieves superior training efficiency and conver-gence performance compared to state-of-the-art multi-agent reinforcement learning(MARL)methods.Robustness tests and ablation experiments further validate its enhanced generalizability and robustness.
基金supported by the Joint Funds of the National Natural Science Foundation of China(U2341216).
文摘Deep reinforcement learning algorithms are revolutionizing intelligent decision-making in air combat,drawing widespread attention and extensive research.However,air combat agents trained with these algorithms face significant challenges,such as limited decision-making capacities due to adversarial training against relatively fixed and singular expert strategies,and a lack of interpretability and reliability in their decisionmaking processes.To tackle these issues,this paper proposes a self-play training mechanism based on policy switching and opponent selection,allowing air combat agents to refine their capabilities via engaging with previous versions of themselves.Additionally,an explainable decision tree model is developed to clarify the decision logic of these agents.Simulations and results demonstrate that the proposed self-play training approach significantly enhances the decision-making abilities of air combat agents,with late-stage agents showing a 38%improvement over early-stage agents in confrontations with an expert strategy.Moreover,the explainable decision tree model effectively elucidates the decision logic and achieves an 86%win rate against the expert strategy,comparable to the 88%win rate of the air combat agents.
基金financial support from National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.61601491)Natural Science Foundation of Hubei Province,China(Grant No.2018CFC865)Military Research Project of China(-Grant No.YJ2020B117)。
文摘To solve the problem of multi-target hunting by an unmanned surface vehicle(USV)fleet,a hunting algorithm based on multi-agent reinforcement learning is proposed.Firstly,the hunting environment and kinematic model without boundary constraints are built,and the criteria for successful target capture are given.Then,the cooperative hunting problem of a USV fleet is modeled as a decentralized partially observable Markov decision process(Dec-POMDP),and a distributed partially observable multitarget hunting Proximal Policy Optimization(DPOMH-PPO)algorithm applicable to USVs is proposed.In addition,an observation model,a reward function and the action space applicable to multi-target hunting tasks are designed.To deal with the dynamic change of observational feature dimension input by partially observable systems,a feature embedding block is proposed.By combining the two feature compression methods of column-wise max pooling(CMP)and column-wise average-pooling(CAP),observational feature encoding is established.Finally,the centralized training and decentralized execution framework is adopted to complete the training of hunting strategy.Each USV in the fleet shares the same policy and perform actions independently.Simulation experiments have verified the effectiveness of the DPOMH-PPO algorithm in the test scenarios with different numbers of USVs.Moreover,the advantages of the proposed model are comprehensively analyzed from the aspects of algorithm performance,migration effect in task scenarios and self-organization capability after being damaged,the potential deployment and application of DPOMH-PPO in the real environment is verified.
基金supported by the National Key R&D Program of China(2017YFB1400105).
文摘In the evolutionary game of the same task for groups,the changes in game rules,personal interests,the crowd size,and external supervision cause uncertain effects on individual decision-making and game results.In the Markov decision framework,a single-task multi-decision evolutionary game model based on multi-agent reinforcement learning is proposed to explore the evolutionary rules in the process of a game.The model can improve the result of a evolutionary game and facilitate the completion of the task.First,based on the multi-agent theory,to solve the existing problems in the original model,a negative feedback tax penalty mechanism is proposed to guide the strategy selection of individuals in the group.In addition,in order to evaluate the evolutionary game results of the group in the model,a calculation method of the group intelligence level is defined.Secondly,the Q-learning algorithm is used to improve the guiding effect of the negative feedback tax penalty mechanism.In the model,the selection strategy of the Q-learning algorithm is improved and a bounded rationality evolutionary game strategy is proposed based on the rule of evolutionary games and the consideration of the bounded rationality of individuals.Finally,simulation results show that the proposed model can effectively guide individuals to choose cooperation strategies which are beneficial to task completion and stability under different negative feedback factor values and different group sizes,so as to improve the group intelligence level.
基金supported by the National Key R&D Program of China (2018AAA0101400)the National Natural Science Foundation of China (62173251+3 种基金61921004U1713209)the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province of China (BK20202006)the Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Intelligent Decision and Cooperative Control。
文摘In this paper, the reinforcement learning method for cooperative multi-agent systems(MAS) with incremental number of agents is studied. The existing multi-agent reinforcement learning approaches deal with the MAS with a specific number of agents, and can learn well-performed policies. However, if there is an increasing number of agents, the previously learned in may not perform well in the current scenario. The new agents need to learn from scratch to find optimal policies with others,which may slow down the learning speed of the whole team. To solve that problem, in this paper, we propose a new algorithm to take full advantage of the historical knowledge which was learned before, and transfer it from the previous agents to the new agents. Since the previous agents have been trained well in the source environment, they are treated as teacher agents in the target environment. Correspondingly, the new agents are called student agents. To enable the student agents to learn from the teacher agents, we first modify the input nodes of the networks for teacher agents to adapt to the current environment. Then, the teacher agents take the observations of the student agents as input, and output the advised actions and values as supervising information. Finally, the student agents combine the reward from the environment and the supervising information from the teacher agents, and learn the optimal policies with modified loss functions. By taking full advantage of the knowledge of teacher agents, the search space for the student agents will be reduced significantly, which can accelerate the learning speed of the holistic system. The proposed algorithm is verified in some multi-agent simulation environments, and its efficiency has been demonstrated by the experiment results.
文摘Future unmanned battles desperately require intelli-gent combat policies,and multi-agent reinforcement learning offers a promising solution.However,due to the complexity of combat operations and large size of the combat group,this task suffers from credit assignment problem more than other rein-forcement learning tasks.This study uses reward shaping to relieve the credit assignment problem and improve policy train-ing for the new generation of large-scale unmanned combat operations.We first prove that multiple reward shaping func-tions would not change the Nash Equilibrium in stochastic games,providing theoretical support for their use.According to the characteristics of combat operations,we propose tactical reward shaping(TRS)that comprises maneuver shaping advice and threat assessment-based attack shaping advice.Then,we investigate the effects of different types and combinations of shaping advice on combat policies through experiments.The results show that TRS improves both the efficiency and attack accuracy of combat policies,with the combination of maneuver reward shaping advice and ally-focused attack shaping advice achieving the best performance compared with that of the base-line strategy.
基金the Project of National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.62106283)the Project of National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.72001214)to provide fund for conducting experimentsthe Project of Natural Science Foundation of Shaanxi Province(Grant No.2020JQ-484)。
文摘The scale of ground-to-air confrontation task assignments is large and needs to deal with many concurrent task assignments and random events.Aiming at the problems where existing task assignment methods are applied to ground-to-air confrontation,there is low efficiency in dealing with complex tasks,and there are interactive conflicts in multiagent systems.This study proposes a multiagent architecture based on a one-general agent with multiple narrow agents(OGMN)to reduce task assignment conflicts.Considering the slow speed of traditional dynamic task assignment algorithms,this paper proposes the proximal policy optimization for task assignment of general and narrow agents(PPOTAGNA)algorithm.The algorithm based on the idea of the optimal assignment strategy algorithm and combined with the training framework of deep reinforcement learning(DRL)adds a multihead attention mechanism and a stage reward mechanism to the bilateral band clipping PPO algorithm to solve the problem of low training efficiency.Finally,simulation experiments are carried out in the digital battlefield.The multiagent architecture based on OGMN combined with the PPO-TAGNA algorithm can obtain higher rewards faster and has a higher win ratio.By analyzing agent behavior,the efficiency,superiority and rationality of resource utilization of this method are verified.
基金supported by the Key Research and Development Program of Shaanxi (2022GXLH-02-09)the Aeronautical Science Foundation of China (20200051053001)the Natural Science Basic Research Program of Shaanxi (2020JM-147)。
文摘Autonomous umanned aerial vehicle(UAV) manipulation is necessary for the defense department to execute tactical missions given by commanders in the future unmanned battlefield. A large amount of research has been devoted to improving the autonomous decision-making ability of UAV in an interactive environment, where finding the optimal maneuvering decisionmaking policy became one of the key issues for enabling the intelligence of UAV. In this paper, we propose a maneuvering decision-making algorithm for autonomous air-delivery based on deep reinforcement learning under the guidance of expert experience. Specifically, we refine the guidance towards area and guidance towards specific point tasks for the air-delivery process based on the traditional air-to-surface fire control methods.Moreover, we construct the UAV maneuvering decision-making model based on Markov decision processes(MDPs). Specifically, we present a reward shaping method for the guidance towards area and guidance towards specific point tasks using potential-based function and expert-guided advice. The proposed algorithm could accelerate the convergence of the maneuvering decision-making policy and increase the stability of the policy in terms of the output during the later stage of training process. The effectiveness of the proposed maneuvering decision-making policy is illustrated by the curves of training parameters and extensive experimental results for testing the trained policy.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(71690233,72001209)the Scientific Research Foundation of the National University of Defense Technology(ZK19-16)。
文摘Equipment development planning(EDP)is usually a long-term process often performed in an environment with high uncertainty.The traditional multi-stage dynamic programming cannot cope with this kind of uncertainty with unpredictable situations.To deal with this problem,a multi-stage EDP model based on a deep reinforcement learning(DRL)algorithm is proposed to respond quickly to any environmental changes within a reasonable range.Firstly,the basic problem of multi-stage EDP is described,and a mathematical planning model is constructed.Then,for two kinds of uncertainties(future capabi lity requirements and the amount of investment in each stage),a corresponding DRL framework is designed to define the environment,state,action,and reward function for multi-stage EDP.After that,the dueling deep Q-network(Dueling DQN)algorithm is used to solve the multi-stage EDP to generate an approximately optimal multi-stage equipment development scheme.Finally,a case of ten kinds of equipment in 100 possible environments,which are randomly generated,is used to test the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed models.The results show that the algorithm can respond instantaneously in any state of the multistage EDP environment and unlike traditional algorithms,the algorithm does not need to re-optimize the problem for any change in the environment.In addition,the algorithm can flexibly adjust at subsequent planning stages in the event of a change to the equipment capability requirements to adapt to the new requirements.
基金supported by the Aeronautical Science Foundation(2017ZC53033).
文摘The unmanned aerial vehicle(UAV)swarm technology is one of the research hotspots in recent years.With the continuous improvement of autonomous intelligence of UAV,the swarm technology of UAV will become one of the main trends of UAV development in the future.This paper studies the behavior decision-making process of UAV swarm rendezvous task based on the double deep Q network(DDQN)algorithm.We design a guided reward function to effectively solve the problem of algorithm convergence caused by the sparse return problem in deep reinforcement learning(DRL)for the long period task.We also propose the concept of temporary storage area,optimizing the memory playback unit of the traditional DDQN algorithm,improving the convergence speed of the algorithm,and speeding up the training process of the algorithm.Different from traditional task environment,this paper establishes a continuous state-space task environment model to improve the authentication process of UAV task environment.Based on the DDQN algorithm,the collaborative tasks of UAV swarm in different task scenarios are trained.The experimental results validate that the DDQN algorithm is efficient in terms of training UAV swarm to complete the given collaborative tasks while meeting the requirements of UAV swarm for centralization and autonomy,and improving the intelligence of UAV swarm collaborative task execution.The simulation results show that after training,the proposed UAV swarm can carry out the rendezvous task well,and the success rate of the mission reaches 90%.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(62003021,62373304)Industry-University-Research Innovation Fund for Chinese Universities(2021ZYA02009)+2 种基金Shaanxi Qinchuangyuan High-level Innovation and Entrepreneurship Talent Project(OCYRCXM-2022-136)Shaanxi Association for Science and Technology Youth Talent Support Program(XXJS202218)the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(D5000210830).
文摘In consideration of the field-of-view(FOV)angle con-straint,this study focuses on the guidance problem with impact time control.A deep reinforcement learning guidance method is given for the missile to obtain the desired impact time and meet the demand of FOV angle constraint.On basis of the framework of the proportional navigation guidance,an auxiliary control term is supplemented by the distributed deep deterministic policy gradient algorithm,in which the reward functions are developed to decrease the time-to-go error and improve the terminal guid-ance accuracy.The numerical simulation demonstrates that the missile governed by the presented deep reinforcement learning guidance law can hit the target successfully at appointed arrival time.
基金supported by the National Defense Science and Technology Innovation(18-163-15-LZ-001-004-13).
文摘This paper investigates the guidance method based on reinforcement learning(RL)for the coplanar orbital interception in a continuous low-thrust scenario.The problem is formulated into a Markov decision process(MDP)model,then a welldesigned RL algorithm,experience based deep deterministic policy gradient(EBDDPG),is proposed to solve it.By taking the advantage of prior information generated through the optimal control model,the proposed algorithm not only resolves the convergence problem of the common RL algorithm,but also successfully trains an efficient deep neural network(DNN)controller for the chaser spacecraft to generate the control sequence.Numerical simulation results show that the proposed algorithm is feasible and the trained DNN controller significantly improves the efficiency over traditional optimization methods by roughly two orders of magnitude.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(62003021,91212304).
文摘The guidance strategy is an extremely critical factor in determining the striking effect of the missile operation.A novel guidance law is presented by exploiting the deep reinforcement learning(DRL)with the hierarchical deep deterministic policy gradient(DDPG)algorithm.The reward functions are constructed to minimize the line-of-sight(LOS)angle rate and avoid the threat caused by the opposed obstacles.To attenuate the chattering of the acceleration,a hierarchical reinforcement learning structure and an improved reward function with action penalty are put forward.The simulation results validate that the missile under the proposed method can hit the target successfully and keep away from the threatened areas effectively.
文摘As an important mechanism in multi-agent interaction,communication can make agents form complex team relationships rather than constitute a simple set of multiple independent agents.However,the existing communication schemes can bring much timing redundancy and irrelevant messages,which seriously affects their practical application.To solve this problem,this paper proposes a targeted multiagent communication algorithm based on state control(SCTC).The SCTC uses a gating mechanism based on state control to reduce the timing redundancy of communication between agents and determines the interaction relationship between agents and the importance weight of a communication message through a series connection of hard-and self-attention mechanisms,realizing targeted communication message processing.In addition,by minimizing the difference between the fusion message generated from a real communication message of each agent and a fusion message generated from the buffered message,the correctness of the final action choice of the agent is ensured.Our evaluation using a challenging set of Star Craft II benchmarks indicates that the SCTC can significantly improve the learning performance and reduce the communication overhead between agents,thus ensuring better cooperation between agents.
基金The authors would like to acknowledge National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.61573285,No.62003267)Aeronautical Science Foundation of China(Grant No.2017ZC53021)+1 种基金Open Fund of Key Laboratory of Data Link Technology of China Electronics Technology Group Corporation(Grant No.CLDL-20182101)Natural Science Foundation of Shaanxi Province(Grant No.2020JQ-220)to provide fund for conducting experiments.
文摘Tracking maneuvering target in real time autonomously and accurately in an uncertain environment is one of the challenging missions for unmanned aerial vehicles(UAVs).In this paper,aiming to address the control problem of maneuvering target tracking and obstacle avoidance,an online path planning approach for UAV is developed based on deep reinforcement learning.Through end-to-end learning powered by neural networks,the proposed approach can achieve the perception of the environment and continuous motion output control.This proposed approach includes:(1)A deep deterministic policy gradient(DDPG)-based control framework to provide learning and autonomous decision-making capability for UAVs;(2)An improved method named MN-DDPG for introducing a type of mixed noises to assist UAV with exploring stochastic strategies for online optimal planning;and(3)An algorithm of taskdecomposition and pre-training for efficient transfer learning to improve the generalization capability of UAV’s control model built based on MN-DDPG.The experimental simulation results have verified that the proposed approach can achieve good self-adaptive adjustment of UAV’s flight attitude in the tasks of maneuvering target tracking with a significant improvement in generalization capability and training efficiency of UAV tracking controller in uncertain environments.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(62003267)the Natural Science Foundation of Shaanxi Province(2020JQ-220)the Open Project of Science and Technology on Electronic Information Control Laboratory(JS20201100339)。
文摘This paper presents a deep reinforcement learning(DRL)-based motion control method to provide unmanned aerial vehicles(UAVs)with additional flexibility while flying across dynamic unknown environments autonomously.This method is applicable in both military and civilian fields such as penetration and rescue.The autonomous motion control problem is addressed through motion planning,action interpretation,trajectory tracking,and vehicle movement within the DRL framework.Novel DRL algorithms are presented by combining two difference-amplifying approaches with traditional DRL methods and are used for solving the motion planning problem.An improved Lyapunov guidance vector field(LGVF)method is used to handle the trajectory-tracking problem and provide guidance control commands for the UAV.In contrast to conventional motion-control approaches,the proposed methods directly map the sensorbased detections and measurements into control signals for the inner loop of the UAV,i.e.,an end-to-end control.The training experiment results show that the novel DRL algorithms provide more than a 20%performance improvement over the state-ofthe-art DRL algorithms.The testing experiment results demonstrate that the controller based on the novel DRL and LGVF,which is only trained once in a static environment,enables the UAV to fly autonomously in various dynamic unknown environments.Thus,the proposed technique provides strong flexibility for the controller.
