Joint Deployment Optimization and Flight Trajectory Planning for UAV Assisted IoT Data Collection: A Bilevel Optimization Approach

• Published in: IEEE transactions on intelligent transportation systems Vol. 23; no. 11; pp. 21492 - 21504
• Main Authors: Han, Shoufei, Zhu, Kun, Zhou, MengChu, Liu, Xiaojing
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York IEEE 01.11.2022; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Autonomous aerial vehicles; Bilevel optimization; dandelion algorithm; Data collection; deployment optimization; Electronic devices; Energy consumption; flight trajectory planning; Greedy algorithms; Internet of Things; iterated greedy algorithm; machine learning; Mixed integer; Mutation; Optimization; Trajectory; Trajectory planning; Traveling salesman problem; UAV; Unmanned aerial vehicles

This work investigates an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) assisted IoT system, where a UAV flies to each foothold to collect data from IoT devices, and then return to its start point. For such a system, we aim to minimize the energy consumption by jointly optimizing the deployment and flight trajector...