Intelligent swarm is a powerful tool for targeting high-value objectives. Within the Anti-Access/Area Denial (A2/AD) context, an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarm must leverage its autonomous decision-making capability to execute tasks with independence. This paper focuses on the Suppression of Enemy Air Defenses (SEAD) mission for intelligent stealth UAV swarms. The current research field mainly faces challenges in fully simulating the complexity of real-world scenarios and in insufficient autonomous task planning capabilities. To address these issues, this paper develops a representative problem model, establishes a six-tier standardized simulation environment, and selects the Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient (DDPG) algorithm as the core intelligent algorithm to enhance the autonomous task planning capabilities of UAV swarms. At the algorithm level, this paper designs reward functions corresponding to UAV swarm behaviors, aiming to motivate UAV swarms to adopt more effective action strategies, thereby achieving autonomous task planning. Simulation results demonstrate that the scenario and architectural design are feasible and that artificial intelligence algorithms can enable the UAV swarm to show a higher level of intelligence.


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    Title :

    Autonomous Task Planning of Intelligent Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Swarm Based on Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient


    Contributors:
    Qiang Jiang (author) / Yongzhao Yan (author) / Yinxing Dai (author) / Zequan Yang (author) / Huazhen Cao (author) / Bo Wang (author) / Xiaoping Ma (author)


    Publication date :

    2025




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    Unknown




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