Summary of Guiding Drones by Information Gain, By Alouette Van Hove et al.
Guiding drones by information gain
by Alouette van Hove, Kristoffer Aalstad, Norbert Pirk
First submitted to arxiv on: 8 Jan 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: None
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper explores two drone sampling strategies for estimating locations and emission rates of gas sources, crucial for environmental monitoring and greenhouse gas analysis. The myopic approach of infotaxis is compared to a far-sighted navigation strategy trained through deep reinforcement learning. Results show that the latter outperforms infotaxis in environments with non-isotropic gas plumes. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This study helps us better understand how drones can collect data about gas sources, which is important for keeping our environment clean and tracking greenhouse gases. The researchers compared two ways of guiding a drone to take samples: one that focuses only on the present moment, and another that looks ahead to what might be most useful to know in the future. They found that the second approach works better when the gas plumes are uneven. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Reinforcement learning * Tracking
