Introduction to unmanned air vehicle route planning methods
Juan Liu · Flight Dynamics · 2010
Three definitions of route planning are given from different views in order to have a common conception for people from different research areas.The route planning problem is divided into five sub issues—configuration space,path representation,constraints,objective function and planning algorithm.Then a general process of analyzing the route planning problem for different unmanned air vehicles is modeled.With the help of classifications of configuration space,objective function and planning algorithm,and analysis of their merits and defects respectively,route planning designers can figure out solutions and make a good choice of the route planning algorithm.Finally,new problems and challenges in the route planning field are given as well as some suggestions.