Joint Optimization of Deployment and Trajectory in UAV and IRS-Assisted IoT Data Collection System

Li Dong, Zhibin Liu*, Feibo Jiang, Kezhi Wang

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Abstract

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be applied in many Internet of Things (IoT) systems, e.g., smart farms, as a data collection platform. However, the UAV-IoT wireless channels may be occasionally blocked by trees or high-rise buildings. An intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) can be applied to improve the wireless channel quality by smartly reflecting the signal via a large number of low-cost passive reflective elements. This article aims to minimize the energy consumption of the system by jointly optimizing the deployment and trajectory of the UAV. The problem is formulated as a mixed-integer-and-nonlinear programming (MINLP), which is challenging to address by the traditional solution, because the solution may easily fall into the local optimal. To address this issue, we propose a joint optimization framework of deployment and trajectory (JOLT), where an adaptive whale optimization algorithm (AWOA) is applied to optimize the deployment of the UAV, and an elastic ring self-organizing map (ERSOM) is introduced to optimize the trajectory of the UAV. Specifically, in AWOA, a variable-length population strategy is applied to find the optimal number of stop points, and a nonlinear parameter $a$ and a partial mutation rule are introduced to balance the exploration and exploitation. In ERSOM, a competitive neural network is also introduced to learn the trajectory of the UAV by competitive learning, and a ring structure is presented to avoid the trajectory intersection. Extensive experiments are carried out to show the effectiveness of the proposed JOLT framework.

Original languageEnglish
Article number9802633
Pages (from-to)21583-21593
Number of pages11
JournalIEEE Internet of Things Journal
Volume9
Issue number21
Early online date21 Jun 2022
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Nov 2022

Keywords

  • Autonomous aerial vehicles
  • Data collection
  • Deployment optimization
  • Energy consumption
  • IRS
  • Internet of Things
  • Optimization
  • Statistics
  • Trajectory
  • UAV
  • adaptive whale optimization algorithm
  • elastic ring self-organizing map
  • trajectory optimization

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