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UAV cluster cooperative combat decision-making method based on deep reinforcement learning
Lin ZHAO, Ke LYU, Jing GUO, Chen HONG, Xiancai XIANG, Jian XUE, Yong WANG
Journal of Computer Applications    2023, 43 (11): 3641-3646.   DOI: 10.11772/j.issn.1001-9081.2022101511
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When the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) cluster attacks ground targets, it will be divided into two formations: a strike UAV cluster that attacks the targets and a auxiliary UAV cluster that pins down the enemy. When auxiliary UAVs choose the action strategy of aggressive attack or saving strength, the mission scenario is similar to a public goods game where the benefits to the cooperator are less than those to the betrayer. Based on this, a decision method for cooperative combat of UAV clusters based on deep reinforcement learning was proposed. First, by building a public goods game based UAV cluster combat model, the interest conflict problem between individual and group in cooperation of intelligent UAV clusters was simulated. Then, Muti-Agent Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient (MADDPG) algorithm was used to solve the most reasonable combat decision of the auxiliary UAV cluster to achieve cluster victory with minimum loss cost. Training and experiments were performed under conditions of different numbers of UAV. The results show that compared to the training effects of two algorithms — IDQN (Independent Deep Q-Network) and ID3QN (Imitative Dueling Double Deep Q-Network), the proposed algorithm has the best convergence, its winning rate can reach 100% with four auxiliary UAVs, and it also significantly outperforms the comparison algorithms with other UAV numbers.

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