Scenario-Driven Evaluation of Autonomous Agents: Integrating Large Language Model for UAV Mission Reliability

The Internet of Drones (IoD) integrates autonomous aerial platforms with security, logistics, agriculture, and disaster relief. Decision-making in IoD suffers in real-time adaptability, platform interoperability, and scalability. Conventional decision frameworks with heuristic algorithms and narrow...

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Main Author: Anıl Sezgin
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Published: MDPI AG 2025-03-01
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description The Internet of Drones (IoD) integrates autonomous aerial platforms with security, logistics, agriculture, and disaster relief. Decision-making in IoD suffers in real-time adaptability, platform interoperability, and scalability. Conventional decision frameworks with heuristic algorithms and narrow Artificial Intelligence (AI) falter in complex environments. To mitigate these, in this study, an augmented decision model is proposed, combining large language models (LLMs) and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) for enhancing IoD intelligence. Centralized intelligence is achieved by processing environment factors, mission logs, and telemetry, with real-time adaptability. Efficient retrieval of contextual information through RAG is merged with LLMs for timely, correct decision-making. Contextualized decision-making vastly improves adaptability in uncertain environments for a drone network. With LLMs and RAG, the model introduces a scalable, adaptable IoD operations solution. It enables the development of autonomous aerial platforms in industries, with future work in computational efficiency, ethics, and extending operational environments. In-depth analysis with the collection of drone telemetry logs and operational factors was conducted. Decision accuracy, response time, and contextual relevance were measured to gauge system effectiveness. The model’s performance increased remarkably, with a BLEU of 0.82 and a cosine similarity of 0.87, proving its effectiveness for operational commands. Decision latency averaged 120 milliseconds, proving its suitability for real-time IoD use cases.
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spelling doaj-art-7e9475b8250d49978ff0f751decabb492025-08-20T02:42:40ZengMDPI AGDrones2504-446X2025-03-019321310.3390/drones9030213Scenario-Driven Evaluation of Autonomous Agents: Integrating Large Language Model for UAV Mission ReliabilityAnıl Sezgin0Research and Development, Siemens A.S, Istanbul 34870, TurkeyThe Internet of Drones (IoD) integrates autonomous aerial platforms with security, logistics, agriculture, and disaster relief. Decision-making in IoD suffers in real-time adaptability, platform interoperability, and scalability. Conventional decision frameworks with heuristic algorithms and narrow Artificial Intelligence (AI) falter in complex environments. To mitigate these, in this study, an augmented decision model is proposed, combining large language models (LLMs) and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) for enhancing IoD intelligence. Centralized intelligence is achieved by processing environment factors, mission logs, and telemetry, with real-time adaptability. Efficient retrieval of contextual information through RAG is merged with LLMs for timely, correct decision-making. Contextualized decision-making vastly improves adaptability in uncertain environments for a drone network. With LLMs and RAG, the model introduces a scalable, adaptable IoD operations solution. It enables the development of autonomous aerial platforms in industries, with future work in computational efficiency, ethics, and extending operational environments. In-depth analysis with the collection of drone telemetry logs and operational factors was conducted. Decision accuracy, response time, and contextual relevance were measured to gauge system effectiveness. The model’s performance increased remarkably, with a BLEU of 0.82 and a cosine similarity of 0.87, proving its effectiveness for operational commands. Decision latency averaged 120 milliseconds, proving its suitability for real-time IoD use cases.https://www.mdpi.com/2504-446X/9/3/213Internet of Droneslarge language modelscentralized decision-makingautonomous systemsretrieval-augmented generation
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Scenario-Driven Evaluation of Autonomous Agents: Integrating Large Language Model for UAV Mission Reliability
Drones
Internet of Drones
large language models
centralized decision-making
autonomous systems
retrieval-augmented generation
title Scenario-Driven Evaluation of Autonomous Agents: Integrating Large Language Model for UAV Mission Reliability
title_full Scenario-Driven Evaluation of Autonomous Agents: Integrating Large Language Model for UAV Mission Reliability
title_fullStr Scenario-Driven Evaluation of Autonomous Agents: Integrating Large Language Model for UAV Mission Reliability
title_full_unstemmed Scenario-Driven Evaluation of Autonomous Agents: Integrating Large Language Model for UAV Mission Reliability
title_short Scenario-Driven Evaluation of Autonomous Agents: Integrating Large Language Model for UAV Mission Reliability
title_sort scenario driven evaluation of autonomous agents integrating large language model for uav mission reliability
topic Internet of Drones
large language models
centralized decision-making
autonomous systems
retrieval-augmented generation
url https://www.mdpi.com/2504-446X/9/3/213
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