Goal-Oriented UAV Communication Design and Optimization for Target Tracking: A Machine Learning Approach

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Abstract

To accomplish various tasks, safe and smooth control of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) needs to be guaranteed, which cannot be met by existing ultra-reliable low latency communications (URLLC). This has attracted the attention of the communication field, where most existing work mainly focused on optimizing communication performance (i.e., delay) and ignored the performance of the task (i.e., tracking accuracy). To explore the effectiveness of communication in completing a task, in this letter, we propose a goal-oriented communication framework adopting a deep reinforcement learning (DRL) algorithm with a proactive repetition scheme (DeepP) to optimize C and C data selection and the maximum number of repetitions in a real-time target tracking task, where a base station (BS) controls a UAV to track a mobile target. The effectiveness of our proposed approach is validated by comparing it with the traditional proportional integral derivative (PID) algorithm.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)2338-2341
Number of pages4
JournalIEEE COMMUNICATIONS LETTERS
Volume28
Issue number10
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2024

Keywords

  • Autonomous aerial vehicles
  • C&C data
  • Delays
  • Downlink
  • DRL
  • K-repetition scheme
  • Real-time systems
  • real-time target tracking
  • Signal to noise ratio
  • Target tracking
  • Task analysis
  • Task-oriented
  • UAV

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