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Luis E. Alvarez
dblp:319/4416
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2024
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 since 2021Graphics, computer vision, multimedia, augmented reality and games · 1 · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Artificial intelligence
1 paper |
Reinforcement learning · 83% Legged, aerial and field robots · 8% Efficient and distributed learning · 8% |
Topics — the 5 heaviest of 5, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Machine learning › Reinforcement learning
actor-critic methods |
0.8 | 1 | 2024 | Improving Autonomous Separation Assurance through Distributed Reinforcement Learning with Attention Networks · AAAI 2024 |
Machine learning › Reinforcement learning
multi-agent reinforcement learning |
0.8 | 1 | 2024 | Improving Autonomous Separation Assurance through Distributed Reinforcement Learning with Attention Networks · AAAI 2024 |
Machine learning › Reinforcement learning › actor-critic methods
soft actor-critic |
0.8 | 1 | 2024 | Improving Autonomous Separation Assurance through Distributed Reinforcement Learning with Attention Networks · AAAI 2024 |
Robotics › Legged, aerial and field robots
aerial vehicle |
0.2 | 1 | 2024 | Improving Autonomous Separation Assurance through Distributed Reinforcement Learning with Attention Networks · AAAI 2024 |
Machine learning › Efficient and distributed learning
distributed training |
0.2 | 1 | 2024 | Improving Autonomous Separation Assurance through Distributed Reinforcement Learning with Attention Networks · AAAI 2024 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
soft actor-critic · 0.8markov decision process · 0.8attention network · 0.8
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Improving Autonomous Separation Assurance through Distributed Reinforcement Learning with Attention NetworksabstractAdvanced Air Mobility (AAM) introduces a new, efficient mode of transportation with the use of vehicle autonomy and electrified aircraft to provide increasingly autonomous transportation between previously underserved markets. Safe and efficient navigation of low altitude aircraft through highly dense environments requires the integration of a multitude of complex observations, such as surveillance, knowledge of vehicle dynamics, and weather. The processing and reasoning on these observations pose challenges due to the various sources of uncertainty in the information while ensuring cooperation with a variable number of aircraft in the airspace. These challenges coupled with the requirement to make safety-critical decisions in real-time rule out the use of conventional separation assurance techniques. We present a decentralized reinforcement learning framework to provide autonomous self-separation capabilities within AAM corridors with the use of speed and vertical maneuvers. The problem is formulated as a Markov Decision Process and solved by developing a novel extension to the sample-efficient, off-policy soft actor-critic (SAC) algorithm. We introduce the use of attention networks for variable-length observation processing and a distributed computing architecture to achieve high training sample throughput as compared to existing approaches. A comprehensive numerical study shows that the proposed framework can ensure safe and efficient separation of aircraft in high density, dynamic environments with various sources of uncertainty. Marc Brittain, Luis E. Alvarez, Kara Breeden |
AAAI | 2 |