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Conference Papers Year : 2024

Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning based Drone Guidance for N-View Triangulation

Simon Lacroix
Murat Bronz

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This article presents a novel approach for controlling a fleet of drones that can track the location of a flying target using onboard omnidirectional cameras. The drones use Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) to learn decentralized policies that optimize their formation and motion around the target, minimizing the uncertainty in the triangulated position. We design a reward function that encourages the trackers to minimize the trace of the covariance matrix of the triangulated position, which is derived from an analytical model of uncertainty propagation. We use Multi-Agent PPO (MAPPO), an extension of Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) to the multi-agent setting, to train the policies using this common reward function that encourages good formation and avoids collisions. We validate our approach in simulation and real-flight experiments, demon- strating its effectiveness and potential in enhancing autonomous multi-drone coordination for precise tracking.
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hal-04659183 , version 1 (22-07-2024)

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Timothée Gavin, Simon Lacroix, Murat Bronz. Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning based Drone Guidance for N-View Triangulation. 2024 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), Jun 2024, Chania - Crete, Greece. pp.578-585, ⟨10.1109/ICUAS60882.2024.10556867⟩. ⟨hal-04659183⟩
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