Title
Vision-based Distributed Multi-UAV Collision Avoidance via Deep Reinforcement Learning for Navigation.
Abstract
Online path planning for multiple unmanned aerial vehicle (multi-UAV) systems is considered a challenging task. It needs to ensure collision-free path planning in real-time, especially when the multi-UAV systems can become very crowded on certain occasions. In this paper, we presented a vision-based decentralized collision-avoidance policy for multi-UAV systems, which takes depth images and inertial measurements as sensory inputs and outputs UAV's steering commands. The policy is trained together with the latent representation of depth images using a policy gradient-based reinforcement learning algorithm and autoencoder in the multi-UAV threedimensional workspaces. Each UAV follows the same trained policy and acts independently to reach the goal without colliding or communicating with other UAVs. We validate our policy in various simulated scenarios. The experimental results show that our learned policy can guarantee fully autonomous collision-free navigation for multi-UAV in the three-dimensional workspaces with good robustness and scalability.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1109/IROS47612.2022.9981803
IEEE/RJS International Conference on Intelligent RObots and Systems (IROS)
DocType
Citations 
PageRank 
Conference
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Huaxing Huang100.34
Guijie Zhu200.34
Zhun Fan310613.81
Hao Zhai400.34
Yuwei Cai500.34
Ze Shi600.34
Zhaohui Dong700.34
Zhifeng Hao865378.36