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Obstacle avoidance and path planning of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is an essential and challenging task, especially in the unknown environment with dynamic obstacles. To address this problem, a method of UAV path planning based on Deep Q-Learning is proposed. The experience replay mechanism is introduced in the deep reinforcement learning (DRL) process, and a value network is established to calculate the optimal value for the action of the UAV. The optimal flight policy of the UAV is determined through the \(\epsilon \)-greed algorithm. The experimental results show that the UAV with well-trained model can avoid the obstacles in motion perfectly, and the cruise time is reduced by half compared with the untrained UAV.
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Wang, G., Zheng, X., Zhao, H., Zhao, Q., Zhang, C., Zhang, B. (2020). Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Path Planning Based on Deep Reinforcement Learning. In: Liu, Y., Wang, L., Zhao, L., Yu, Z. (eds) Advances in Natural Computation, Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery. ICNC-FSKD 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1074. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32456-8_9
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