Hypergraph Neural Networks for Collaborative Drone Mission Planning
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Abstract
Over the past few years, autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have emerged as a significant presence in activities such as environmental monitoring, disaster response, surveillance, and infrastructure management in smart cities. The classical mission planning frameworks are primarily based on traditional graph-based models, such as Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs), Graph Attention Networks (GATs), and Message Passing Neural Networks (MPNNs). Although useful in some limited aspects, these models have a theoretical drawback in that they are unable to model the higher-order interactions of many agents and tasks, as they focus on modeling the relationships between only a pair of them at a time. To address such difficulties, we introduce a new decision support tool, specifically designed to combat a mission called Hypergraph Neural Network, or HyperGNNs. We applied our suggested architecture, based on HyperGNN, utilizing PyTorch Geometric, and tested it with the help of rigorous simulations on the Google Colab platform. In the proposed experiment, realistic drone limitations were considered, including battery capacity, task type, environmental factors, and safety margins. The comparison analysis revealed that our model achieved a success rate of 93%, whereas the other approaches were GCN (82%), GAT (85%), and MPNN$(87 \%)$. It also showed a 15 to 20 percent reduction in the planning process, a 12 percent increase in energy consumption, and a 75 percent reduction in collision rate compared to baselines. These enhancements suggest the potential for describing collaborative drone missions using hypergraph structures. Overall, our method is scalable and provides an efficient approach to real-time, multi-agent mission planning, offering an excellent platform for extending work to address adaptive, neuromorphic, and real-world systems.
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Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
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| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
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| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
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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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