An Information-Assisted Deep Reinforcement Learning Path Planning Scheme for Dynamic and Unknown Underwater Environment.

An autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) has shown impressive potential and promising exploitation prospects in numerous marine missions. Among its various applications, the most essential prerequisite is path planning. Although considerable endeavors have been made, there are several limitations. A complete and realistic ocean simulation environment is critically needed. As most of the existing methods are based on mathematical models, they suffer from a large gap with reality. At the same time, the dynamic and unknown environment places high demands on robustness and generalization. In order to overcome these limitations, we propose an information-assisted reinforcement learning path planning scheme. First, it performs numerical modeling based on real ocean current observations to establish a complete simulation environment with the grid method, including 3-D terrain, dynamic currents, local information, and so on. Next, we propose an information compression (IC) scheme to trim the mutual information (MI) between reinforcement learning neural network layers to improve generalization. A proof based on information theory provides solid support for this. Moreover, for the dynamic characteristics of the marine environment, we elaborately design a confidence evaluator (CE), which evaluates the correlation between two adjacent frames of ocean currents to provide confidence for the action. The performance of our method has been evaluated and proven by numerical results, which demonstrate a fair sensitivity to ocean currents and high robustness and generalization to cope with the dynamic and unknown underwater environment.

Generative AI-based Data Completeness Augmentation Algorithm for Data-driven Smart Healthcare.

In the decade, artificial intelligence has achieved great popularity and applications in medicine and healthcare. Various AI-based algorithms have shown astonishing performance. However, in various data-driven smart healthcare algorithms, the problem of incomplete dataset remains a huge challenge. In this paper, we propose a data completeness enhancement algorithm based on generative AI (i.e., GenAI-DAA) to solve the problems of the in-sufficient data for model training, the data imbalance, and the biases of the training samples. We first construct the cognitive field of the generative models and effectively understand the state of incomplete cognition in generative models. Secondly, on this basis, we propose a quest algorithm for abnormal samples in the cognitive field based on local outlier factor. By fine-grained value evaluation, abnormal samples are given more refined attention. Finally, integrating the above process through multiple cognitive adjustments, GenAI-DAA gradually improves the cognitive ability. GenAI-DAA can be summarized as "Quest-→Estimate-→Tune-up". We have conducted extensive experiments to demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed algorithm, and shown widely applications to some typical data-driven smart healthcare algorithms.

Deep Reinforcement Learning for the Detection of Abnormal Data in Smart Meters.

The rapidly growing power data in smart grids have created difficulties in security management. The processing of large-scale power data with the use of artificial intelligence methods has become a hotspot research topic. Considering the early warning detection problem of smart meters, this paper proposes an abnormal data detection network based on Deep Reinforcement Learning, which includes a main network and a target network composed of deep learning networks. This work uses the greedy policy algorithm to find the action of the maximum value of Q based on the Q-learning method to obtain the optimal calculation policy. It also uses the reward value and discount factor to optimize the target value. In particular, this study uses the fuzzy c-means method to predict the future state information value, which improves the computational accuracy of the Deep Reinforcement Learning model. The experimental results show that compared with the traditional smart meter data anomaly detection method, the proposed model improves the accuracy of meter data anomaly detection.

Enriching Facial Anti-Spoofing Datasets via an Effective Face Swapping Framework.

In the era of rapid development of the Internet of things, deep learning, and communication technologies, social media has become an indispensable element. However, while enjoying the convenience brought by technological innovation, people are also facing the negative impact brought by them. Taking the users' portraits of multimedia systems as examples, with the maturity of deep facial forgery technologies, personal portraits are facing malicious tampering and forgery, which pose a potential threat to personal privacy security and social impact. At present, the deep forgery detection methods are learning-based methods, which depend on the data to a certain extent. Enriching facial anti-spoofing datasets is an effective method to solve the above problem. Therefore, we propose an effective face swapping framework based on StyleGAN. We utilize the feature pyramid network to extract facial features and map them to the latent space of StyleGAN. In order to realize the transformation of identity, we explore the representation of identity information and propose an adaptive identity editing module. We design a simple and effective post-processing process to improve the authenticity of the images. Experiments show that our proposed method can effectively complete face swapping and provide high-quality data for deep forgery detection to ensure the security of multimedia systems.

The Intelligent Path Planning System of Agricultural Robot via Reinforcement Learning.

Agricultural robots are one of the important means to promote agricultural modernization and improve agricultural efficiency. With the development of artificial intelligence technology and the maturity of Internet of Things (IoT) technology, people put forward higher requirements for the intelligence of robots. Agricultural robots must have intelligent control functions in agricultural scenarios and be able to autonomously decide paths to complete agricultural tasks. In response to this requirement, this paper proposes a Residual-like Soft Actor Critic (R-SAC) algorithm for agricultural scenarios to realize safe obstacle avoidance and intelligent path planning of robots. In addition, in order to alleviate the time-consuming problem of exploration process of reinforcement learning, this paper proposes an offline expert experience pre-training method, which improves the training efficiency of reinforcement learning. Moreover, this paper optimizes the reward mechanism of the algorithm by using multi-step TD-error, which solves the probable dilemma during training. Experiments verify that our proposed method has stable performance in both static and dynamic obstacle environments, and is superior to other reinforcement learning algorithms. It is a stable and efficient path planning method and has visible application potential in agricultural robots.

The Sea Route Planning for Survey Vessel Intelligently Navigating to the Survey Lines.

Marine surveying is an important part of marine environment monitoring systems. In order to improve the accuracy of marine surveying and reduce investment in artificial stations, it is necessary to use high-precision GNSS for shipborne navigation measurements. The basic measurement is based on the survey lines that are already planned by surveyors. In response to the needs of survey vessels sailing to the survey line, a method framework for the shortest route planning is proposed. Then an intelligent navigation system for survey vessels is established, which can be applied to online navigation of survey vessels. The essence of the framework is that the vessel can travel along the shortest route to the designated survey line under the limitation of its own minimum turning radius. Comparison and analysis of experiments show that the framework achieves better optimization. The experimental results show that our proposed method can enable the vessel to sail along a shorter path and reach the starting point of the survey line at the specified angle.