On path planning for UAVs based on adaptive ant system algorithm
Lixun Han · Electronics Optics & Control · 2007
To improve the efficiency of UAVs in combat mission,a highly effective flight path must be worked out ahead of taking the mission.A path planning scheme for UAVs based on Ant-Q System is studied in the paper,which seems quite promising for the path planning problem.We present a threat model on the basis of real terrain data and fire threats.Since stagnation may appear during searching in use of traditional ant colonies algorithm,we put forward an adaptive Ant-Q system algorithm for solving the problem.We give a simulation example in Fig.3 and Fig.4 to show that the method has some good characteristics and is effective in the path planning.