用数字孪生技术让无人机在未知环境自动规划安全路径。
Trajectory Design for UAV-Based Low-Altitude Wireless Networks in Unknown Environments: A Digital Twin-Assisted TD3 Approach
- 通过数字孪生实时构建虚拟环境,辅助无人机路径规划。
- 融合模拟退火与强化学习算法,任务完成时间更短。
- 适合复杂未知环境下需高安全性的无人机网络部署。
无人飞行器(UAV)正成为低空无线网络(LAWN)的关键使能技术,尤其在地面网络不可用时。由于环境拓扑通常未知,设计高效且安全的无人机轨迹极具挑战。为此,本文提出一种数字孪生(DT)辅助的训练与部署框架:无人机通过集成感知与通信信号为地面用户服务,同时收集回波并上传至数字孪生服务器,逐步构建虚拟环境(VE)。这些虚拟环境加速模型训练,并在部署中持续融合实时感知数据,支持决策并提升飞行安全性。基于此框架,进一步设计了一种轨迹规划方案,结合模拟退火实现高效用户调度,利用双延迟深度确定性策略梯度(TD3)算法进行连续轨迹优化,旨在最小化任务完成时间并确保避障。仿真结果表明,该方法收敛更快、飞行安全性更高、任务完成时间更短,为未知环境中LAWN部署提供了鲁棒高效的解决方案。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are emerging as key enablers for low-altitude wireless network (LAWN), particularly when terrestrial networks are unavailable. In such scenarios, the environmental topology is typically unknown; hence, designing efficient and safe UAV trajectories is essential yet challenging. To address this, we propose a digital twin (DT)-assisted training and deployment framework. In this framework, the UAV transmits integrated sensing and communication signals to provide communication services to ground users, while simultaneously collecting echoes that are uploaded to the DT server to progressively construct virtual environments (VEs). These VEs accelerate model training and are continuously updated with real-time UAV sensing data during deployment, supporting decision-making and enhancing flight safety. Based on this framework, we further develop a trajectory design scheme that integrates simulated annealing for efficient user scheduling with the twin-delayed deep deterministic policy gradient algorithm for continuous trajectory design, aiming to minimize mission completion time while ensuring obstacle avoidance. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed approach achieves faster convergence, higher flight safety, and shorter mission completion time compared with baseline methods, providing a robust and efficient solution for LAWN deployment in unknown environments.
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