Title
Wind-field identification for parafoils based on deep Q-learning iterative inversion
Abstract
Powered parafoils are flexible aircraft with high load capacities and low costs and are often used in long-term surveillance and airdrop missions. As a flexible aircraft, powered parafoil flights are easily affected by winds. However, wind-field identification is difficult for low-to-medium speed unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), which makes it challenging for UAVs such as powered parafoils to perform targeted wind compensation. To observe and compensate for this, we must accurately identify the wind field for the powered parafoil. In this study, we designed a deep Q-learning iterative inversion (DQII) algorithm for wind-field identification to concretely analyze wind-field identification through model inversion. Using a deep Q-learning (DQ) inverting dynamic model, a powered parafoil can identify the wind field within 2 s. In addition, iterative chaotic particle swarm optimization was performed based on DQ inversion, which achieved a high-precision wind-field identification effect. Simulation experiments showed that, compared with the traditional dead reckoning (DR) algorithm, DQII can reduce the error by 80%–90%. In a powered parafoil homing experiment, DQII achieved a wind-field identification effect that was significantly better than that of the DR algorithm.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1016/j.ins.2022.07.185
Information Sciences
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Powered parafoil,Wind-field identification,Deep Q-learning,Dynamic modeling
Journal
610
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0020-0255
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Zhenping Yu100.34
Hao Sun200.68
Qinglin Sun333.77
Jin Tao401.35
Zengqiang Chen511.37