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Attention-based UAV Trajectory Optimization for Wireless Power Transfer-assisted IoT Systems

Signal Processing 2025-02-26 v1 Artificial Intelligence

Abstract

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in Wireless Power Transfer (WPT)-assisted Internet of Things (IoT) systems face the following challenges: limited resources and suboptimal trajectory planning. Reinforcement learning-based trajectory planning schemes face issues of low search efficiency and learning instability when optimizing large-scale systems. To address these issues, we present an Attention-based UAV Trajectory Optimization (AUTO) framework based on the graph transformer, which consists of an Attention Trajectory Optimization Model (ATOM) and a Trajectory lEarNing Method based on Actor-critic (TENMA). In ATOM, a graph encoder is used to calculate the self-attention characteristics of all IoTDs, and a trajectory decoder is developed to optimize the number and trajectories of UAVs. TENMA then trains the ATOM using an improved Actor-Critic method, in which the real reward of the system is applied as the baseline to reduce variances in the critic network. This method is suitable for high-quality and large-scale multi-UAV trajectory planning. Finally, we develop numerous experiments, including a hardware experiment in the field case, to verify the feasibility and efficiency of the AUTO framework.

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@article{arxiv.2502.17517,
  title  = {Attention-based UAV Trajectory Optimization for Wireless Power Transfer-assisted IoT Systems},
  author = {Li Dong and Feibo Jiang and Yubo Peng},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.17517},
  year   = {2025}
}
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