AERIS: Offline Policy Improvement for Multi-UAV Integrated Sensing and Communication
cs.NI, cs.LG
Submitted: 2026-08-26
Updated: 2026-08-26
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
The gist: Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) is a promising 6G paradigm, but dynamic multi-UAV ISAC control must jointly balance communication quality, sensing
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Abstract
Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) is a promising 6G paradigm, but dynamic multi-UAV ISAC control must jointly balance communication quality, sensing reliability, and flight safety under stochastic mobility. Existing optimization methods often require repeated global non-convex solving, while online reinforcement learning (RL) depends on risky trial-and-error flights that may cause sensing loss or collision-risk events. This paper proposes AERIS, an offline policy improvement framework for multi-UAV ISAC. AERIS learns from fixed flight logs under centralized training and decentralized execution, so each UAV acts from local histories while training uses logged global information to assess team-level effects. We further design STAR-CRDT, an offline multi-agent RL algorithm that performs support-aware local action rectification and distills only trusted improvements into the decentralized actor. We prove an offline-support policy improvement guarantee. Experiments show that STAR-CRDT improves the main ISAC objective return by 29.3% over the strongest baseline. It further improves communication sum rate, sensing pass rate, and sensing margin by 3.4%, 4.8%, and 69.1%, while reducing collision-risk events by 54.2%. On unseen real-road maps built from OpenStreetMap data, STAR-CRDT still obtains the best return.
Sources
- D4RL: Datasets for Deep Data-Driven Reinforcement Learning
- Offline Reinforcement Learning: Tutorial, Review, and Perspectives on Open Problems
- Offline Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning with Implicit Global-to-Local Value Regularization
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