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Pei-qiu Huang

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6278-4566

Yong Wang

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7670-3958

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Frontiers of Information Technology & Electronic Engineering  2020 Vol.21 No.12 P.1713-1725

http://doi.org/10.1631/FITEE.2000315


Energy-efficient trajectory planning for a multi-UAV-assisted mobile edge computing system


Author(s):  Pei-qiu Huang, Yong Wang, Ke-zhi Wang

Affiliation(s):  School of Automation, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China; more

Corresponding email(s):   pqhuang@csu.edu.cn, ywang@csu.edu.cn, kezhi.wang@northumbria.ac.uk

Key Words:  Multiple unmanned aerial vehicles, Mobile edge computing, Trajectory planning, Differential evolution, k-means clustering algorithm, Greedy method


Pei-qiu Huang, Yong Wang, Ke-zhi Wang. Energy-efficient trajectory planning for a multi-UAV-assisted mobile edge computing system[J]. Frontiers of Information Technology & Electronic Engineering, 2020, 21(12): 1713-1725.

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Abstract: 
We study a mobile edge computing system assisted by multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), where the UAVs act as edge servers to provide computing services for Internet of Things devices. Our goal is to minimize the energy consumption of this system by planning the trajectories of UAVs. This problem is difficult to address because when planning the trajectories, we need to consider not only the order of stop points (SPs), but also their deployment (including the number and locations) and the association between UAVs and SPs. To tackle this problem, we present an energy-efficient trajectory planning algorithm (TPA) which comprises three phases. In the first phase, a differential evolution algorithm with a variable population size is adopted to update the number and locations of SPs at the same time. In the second phase, the k-means clustering algorithm is employed to group the given SPs into a set of clusters, where the number of clusters is equal to that of UAVs and each cluster contains all SPs visited by the same UAV. In the third phase, to quickly generate the trajectories of UAVs, we propose a low-complexity greedy method to construct the order of SPs in each cluster. Compared with other algorithms, the effectiveness of TPA is verified on a set of instances at different scales.

多无人机辅助移动边缘计算系统能量有效的轨迹规划

黄佩秋1,王勇1,王可之2
1中南大学自动化学院,中国长沙市,410083
2诺桑比亚大学计算机信息科学系,英国纽卡斯尔市,NE18ST

摘要:本文研究多无人机辅助移动边缘计算系统,该系统中无人机可作为边缘服务器为物联网设备提供计算服务。本文目标是通过规划无人机轨迹将系统能耗最小化。规划无人机轨迹不仅要考虑停靠点的访问顺序,还要考虑停靠点的布局(包括其数量和位置)以及无人机与停靠点的关联。为解决该问题,提出一个3阶段的能量有效轨迹规划算法。第一阶段采用种群大小可变的差分进化算法,同时更新停靠点的数量和位置。第二阶段采用k均值聚类算法将给定停靠点聚类为一系列子组,其中子组数目等于无人机数目,且每个子组中包含一个无人机需要访问的所有停靠点。第三阶段提出一种低复杂度的贪婪方法用于快速获取每个子组中停靠点的访问顺序。最后,在一组不同规模的实例上验证所提出算法的有效性。

关键词:多无人机;移动边缘计算;轨迹规划;差分进化算法;k均值聚类算法;贪婪算法

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