Resource allocation in UAV assisted air ground intelligent inspection system

Abstract

With the progress of power grid technology and intelligent technology, intelligent inspection robot (IR) came into being and are expected to become the main force of substation inspection in the future. Among them, mobile edge computing provides a promising architecture to meet the explosive growth of communication and computing needs of inspection robot. Inspection robot can transmit the collected High Definition (HD) video to adjacent edge servers for data processing and state research and judgment. However, the communication constraints of long-distance transmission, high reliability and low delay pose challenges to task offloading optimization. Therefore, this paper introduced Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) and established UAV assisted mobile edge computing system. UAV assisted and mobile edge computing are combined to form edge computing nodes. In this way, it provided communication and computing services to the IR for fast data processing. Specifically, in order to optimize the system energy consumption, a resource allocation strategy based on genetic algorithm is proposed. By optimizing the offloading decision and computing resource allocation of the IRs, the computing task of the IRs are offloaded to an energy-efficient UAV. The experimental results show that the resource allocation strategy based on genetic algorithm can effectively reduce the energy consumption and cost of UAVs and IRs, and effectively realize the reasonable allocation of resources. The results verify the effectiveness and reliability of the algorithm in the real scene.