Learning-Accelerated Optimization-based Trajectory Planning for Cooperative Aerial-Ground Handover Missions
Abstract
This paper presents a learning-augmented trajectory planning framework for cooperative unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) handover missions. While centralized trajectory optimization ensures dynamic feasibility and task optimality, its high computational cost limits real-time applicability. We propose a neural surrogate planner utilizing decoupled encoder-decoder long short-term memory (LSTM) networks to generate coordinated handover trajectory predictions from the task specifications. These predictions serve as informed warm starts for the downstream centralized optimizer, thereby accelerating convergence to dynamically feasible solutions. Benchmark evaluations demonstrate that the learning-augmented planning framework achieves more than a threefold speedup and 100% optimization success rate compared to cold start optimization. The results indicate that combining data-driven inference with model-based refinement enables fast and reliable trajectory generation for heterogeneous multi-robot systems.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2605.19562,
title = {Learning-Accelerated Optimization-based Trajectory Planning for Cooperative Aerial-Ground Handover Missions},
author = {Jingshan Chen and Bochen Yu and Henrik Ebel and Peter Eberhard},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.19562},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
Preprint of a contribution accepted for publication in the RoManSy 2026 Springer proceedings