Deep Reinforcement Learning of Collision-Free Flocking Policies for Multiple Fixed-Wing UAVs Using Local Situation Maps

The evolution of artificial intelligence and Internet of Things (IoT) envision a highly integrated artificial IoT (AIoT) network. Flocking and cooperation with multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are expected to play a vital role in industrial AIoT networks. In this article, we formulate the collision-free flocking problem of fixed-wing UAVs as a Markov decision process and solve it in the de...