Chengtao Xu

Dr. Chengtao Xu


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Academic Career Length

1Year (2026-Present)

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10 September 2026 in Drones
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浩梅浩宇 梅
浩宇 梅
CXChengtao Xu
Chengtao Xu
RLRuozhe Li
Ruozhe Li
XLXueshan Luo
Xueshan Luo
In disaster response and other infrastructure-limited settings, UAV-mounted access points can rapidly restore service availability for mobile ground users as demand and fleet availability evolve. Existing single-slot coverage formulations, however, can mask prolonged individual outages and do not jointly represent heterogeneous service priorities, finite battery capacities, and periodic recharging. We study persistent geometricmulti-UAV service coverage, where a user is available for service when it lies inside a UAV footprint. We propose Priority- and Outage-Guided Safe QMIX (POGS-QMIX), a hybrid hierarchical framework in which a centralized online coordinator forms conflict-reduced UAV–user targets from fleet-wide priority and outage information, while parameter-shared QMIX agents independently choose target-conditioned low-level actions. The framework couples class-balanced outage memory, assignment, dense target-progress feedback, and a return-energy action mask. The evaluation includes learning and non-learning baselines, greedy-versus-Hungarian assignment, multi-seed statistics, sensitivity studies, operating-condition studies, and energy-stress tests. In the default scenario, POGS-QMIX obtains high-priority coverage 0.547±0.009 and maximum high-priority outage 38.0±4.7 slots over five independent seeds.