To achieve sustained autonomous dynamic soaring, trajectory planning is indispensable. Common approaches require accurate knowledge of the environment for planning. This work aims to develop a trajectory planner using reinforcement learning to circumvent the necessity of having perfect knowledge of the environment. To reduce the dimension and the computational complexity of the problem, we propose an efficient trajectory parameterization. Although the planner is trained only for a specific wind speed, it enables steady dynamic soaring across various wind conditions. Eventually, the developed planner is benchmarked against closed-loop parameter optimization and open-loop trajectory optimization approaches.

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Reinforcement Learning Based Trajectory Planning for Autonomous Dynamic Soaring

  • Alexander Zwenig,
  • Samuel Layer-Reiss,
  • Florian Holzapfel,
  • Haichao Hong

摘要

To achieve sustained autonomous dynamic soaring, trajectory planning is indispensable. Common approaches require accurate knowledge of the environment for planning. This work aims to develop a trajectory planner using reinforcement learning to circumvent the necessity of having perfect knowledge of the environment. To reduce the dimension and the computational complexity of the problem, we propose an efficient trajectory parameterization. Although the planner is trained only for a specific wind speed, it enables steady dynamic soaring across various wind conditions. Eventually, the developed planner is benchmarked against closed-loop parameter optimization and open-loop trajectory optimization approaches.