Safe autonomous navigation of unmanned aircraft systems (UASs) depends on tactical deconfliction — resolving conflicts that strategic coordination cannot prevent. According to a new paper on arXiv, this becomes especially difficult under partial observability, when sensor or traffic data are missing.
The paper proposes an interruption-aware recurrent reinforcement learning approach for UAS navigation. The method is designed to handle temporary overrides, situations in which the autonomous system is briefly taken out of control and must resume navigation afterward. The recurrent component is intended to help the agent keep track of past information when current observations are incomplete.
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