Urban UAV Path Planning Based on Improved Beetle Search Algorithm

doi:10.16182/j.issn1004731x.joss.22-0778

Abstract

Abstract:

An improved SABAS is proposed to improve the safety and path smoothing of UAV missions in urban multi-obstacle environments and to obtain the shortest path. The algorithm no longer completely depends on the difference of odor concentration between the left and the right tentacles of beetle when exploring the path for position update. Instead, it makes full use of the strong searching ability of BAS algorithm, and introduces the annealing algorithm to add the neighborhood position solution of the next position, and finally selects the next best position from the neighborhood position solution. Metropolis criterion of annealing algorithm is used to judge whether the obtained best position is mobile or not, which overcomes the shortcoming of classical BAS being easy to fall into local optimal solution. Simulation results show that SABAS is superior to BAS and ACO convergence speed, safety, smoothness and the length of the path in urban multi-obstacle environment. It can be concluded that the planned path is optimal when the initial step size and step size factor are 16 m and 0.99 respectively in the current multi-obstacle city scenario.

Key words: UAV, path planning, annealing beetle search algorithm, urban environment, the optimal path

CLC Number:

TP391.9

Yang Qingqing, Deng Minyi, Peng Yi. Urban UAV Path Planning Based on Improved Beetle Search Algorithm[J]. Journal of System Simulation, 2023, 35(12): 2527-2536.

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Parameter Settings

参数	数值
最远路径长度L_max/m	3 000
最大转弯角 $β m a x$ /rad	$π / 2$
最大飞行高度H_max/m	120
最小飞行高度H_min/m	20
最小安全距离d_min/m	10
起始点 $x 0$ 坐标/m	(0, 0, 30)
最大俯仰角 $μ m a x$ /rad	$π / 2$
初始步长/m	16
步长因子 $δ 0$	0.99
终点 $x T$ 坐标 $/ m$	(1 000, 1 000, 50)
危险度代价权重 $c 1$	0.4
高度代价权重 $c 2$	0.3
航程代价权重 $c 3$	0.3
与终点距离代价权重 $c 4$	0.3

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Influence of initial step size on path planning results

初始步长 $δ 0$ /m	路径长度/m	路径点数
≤14	<1 451	>>1 000 000
15	1 451	376
16	1 456	251
17	1 475	209
20	1 497	141

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Influence of step size factor on path planning result

步长因子 $α$	路径长度/m	路径点数
<0.990	<1 456	>>1 000 000
0.990	1 456	251
0.991	1 468	199
0.992	1 476	170
0.993	1 479	151
0.994	1 483	137
0.995	1 487	126
0.999	1 503	99

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