Average AoI-Minimal Trajectory Design for UAV-Assisted IoT Data Collection System: A Safe-TD3 ApproachShow others and affiliations
2024 (English)In: IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, ISSN 2162-2337, E-ISSN 2162-2345, Vol. 13, no 2, p. 530-534Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
This letter investigates an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted data collection strategy where the UAV trajectory is optimally designed to collect status update from several Internet of Things (IoT) nodes, so as to minimize the average Age of Information (AoI). We consider a practical three-dimensional (3D) urban environment, and design the UAV's trajectory by considering the data collection, flight, and energy constraints. Motivated by the critical safety requirements for the UAV, i.e., the energy constraint during the data collection, we exploit the twin delayed deep deterministic policy gradient (TD3) approach by enforcing the safety constraint throughout the training, and propose a Safe-TD3 based trajectory design for average AoI minimization. By evaluating the long-term safety constraint via the integrated cost network, we illustrate the superiority of the proposed Safe-TD3 based trajectory design algorithm over the benchmarks in reducing the safety constraint violations during the training process while achieving a lower average AoI.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC , 2024. Vol. 13, no 2, p. 530-534
Keywords [en]
Autonomous aerial vehicles; Trajectory; Data collection; Safety; Internet of Things; Energy consumption; Rayleigh channels; UAV trajectory planning; data collection; AoI; energy constraint; deep reinforcement learning
National Category
Communication Systems
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-202948DOI: 10.1109/LWC.2023.3335037ISI: 001167560000010OAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-202948DiVA, id: diva2:1853780
Note
Funding Agencies|Natural Science Basic Research Program of Shaanxi
2024-04-232024-04-232024-04-23