IEEE Access (Jan 2023)

MARL-Based Multi-Satellite Intelligent Task Planning Method

  • Guohui Zhang,
  • Xinhong Li,
  • Gangxuan Hu,
  • Yanyan Li,
  • Xun Wang,
  • Zhibin Zhang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3337358
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11
pp. 135517 – 135528

Abstract

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In this article, we propose a solution to multi-satellite intelligent task planning using the multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) method. Fristly, we have developed a multi-satellite task planning model based on the Markov game framework. Furthermore, we have computationally designed a satellite state transition function to address the task planning problem and successfully solved it using the multi-agent proximal policy optimization (MAPPO) algorithm. Our experimental results demonstrate that the MARL method exhibits remarkable convergence speed and performance, delivering significant rewards in multi-scale task planning scenarios. Consequently, it proves to be a highly suitable approach for multi-satellite intelligent task planning.

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