On the Optimization of Laser-Powered UAV-Assisted Backscatter Communications
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Abstract
This paper studies the joint trajectory and resource allocation problem for a laser-powered unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) assisted data aggregation framework. The considered system incorporates semi-passive nodes that establish their wireless communication links with the UAV via bistatic backscatter communications enabled by a battery-powered power beacon source. We aim to optimize the UAV trajectory while minimizing the laser energy consumption throughout the whole flight by tuning the laser power and the power beacon radiated temporal power profiles. Towards this aim, we first adopt path discretization to approximate the optimal control problem of interest into a non-linear programming one whilst accounting for the UAV dynamics constraints and available power budget restrictions. Then, we solve the problem by successive convex approximation (SCA) over the joint set of variables and determine the problem feasibility by a data collection maximization problem. Moreover, we propose a low-complexity solution for the feasibility problem. Finally, the conducted simulations show that the proposed algorithm provides 50% collected data increase and almost 50% laser energy reduction under different operation conditions such as laser station position, maximum laser output power, start and end points of the trajectory, power beacon battery capacity, and the permissible flight length.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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