Jingguan Li

Title: Jingguan Li and UAV-Based Water Bloom Monitoring

Introduction

Jingguan Li is an inventor associated with Kunming, China, and Huaneng Lancang River Hydropower Inc. His work includes a patented approach to monitoring water blooms in reservoir areas using coordinated unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).

Latest Patents

Li is named on 1 patent: “Reservoir Area Water Bloom Rapid Monitoring Method and Device Based on Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Swarm Coordination.” The invention uses local update quantification in a federated learning system to reduce communication between UAVs and a central server while maintaining the accuracy of the monitoring model. It defines a loss-function queue for each UAV and uses the relationship between historical and current loss functions to quantify model updates before they are sent upstream.

The method addresses challenges including the difficulty of uploading large volumes of images collected by UAV swarms, high communication demands, and slow model convergence caused by frequent communication. By reducing the amount of data exchanged, the approach aims to improve communication efficiency for rapid reservoir water bloom monitoring.

Career Highlights

Li’s listed patent connects UAV swarm coordination with federated learning for environmental monitoring. His work is associated with Huaneng Lancang River Hydropower Inc.

Collaborations

Zuobin Yang and Wei Zeng are identified as Li’s coworkers. The available information does not specify their roles in the patent or the details of their collaboration.

Conclusion

Jingguan Li’s patented method applies communication-efficient federated learning to UAV-based reservoir monitoring, addressing practical challenges in detecting water blooms across large areas.