Path planning is a prevalent process that helps mobile robots find the most efficient pathway from the starting position to the goal position to avoid collisions with obstacles.In this paper,we propose a novel path pl...Path planning is a prevalent process that helps mobile robots find the most efficient pathway from the starting position to the goal position to avoid collisions with obstacles.In this paper,we propose a novel path planning algorithm-Intermediary RRT*-PSO-by utilizing the exploring speed advantages of Rapidly exploring Random Trees and using its solution to feed to a metaheuristic-based optimizer,Particle swarm optimization(PSO),for fine-tuning and enhancement.In Phase 1,the start and goal trees are initialized at the starting and goal positions,respectively,and the intermediary tree is initialized at a random unexplored region of the search space.The trees were grown until one met the other and then merged and re-initialized in other unexplored regions.If the start and goal trees merge,the first solution is found and passed through a minimization process to reduce unnecessary nodes.Phase 2 begins by feeding the minimized solution from Phase 1 as the global best particle of PSO to optimize the path.After simulating two special benchmark configurations and six practice configurations with special cases,the results of the study concluded that the proposed method is capable of handling small to large,simple to complex continuous environments,whereas it was very tedious for the previous method to achieve.展开更多
针对多障碍物环境下考虑无人机(Unmanned Aerial Vehicle,UAV)始末位姿、转弯半径和航迹长度的1阶光滑约束的UAV航迹规划问题,提出一种基于快速搜索随机树(Rapidly-exploring Random Trees,RRT)算法和Dubins曲线以局部最优逼近全局最优...针对多障碍物环境下考虑无人机(Unmanned Aerial Vehicle,UAV)始末位姿、转弯半径和航迹长度的1阶光滑约束的UAV航迹规划问题,提出一种基于快速搜索随机树(Rapidly-exploring Random Trees,RRT)算法和Dubins曲线以局部最优逼近全局最优的UAV航迹优化方法。利用RRT算法和基于贪心算法的剪枝优化方法,在二维任务空间中规划出满足避障要求的可行离散航路点。采用多条Dubins曲线平滑连接航路点,根据UAV始末位姿确定首尾曲线端点,基于UAV性能、障碍物和飞行参数的约束关系,建立多约束的航迹优化数学模型。通过粒子群优化算法确定曲线类型,同时优化曲线连接处位姿和曲线半径,获得最短航迹。仿真结果表明:所提方法得到的航迹与其他方法相比,在不同障碍物数量和始末位姿的多种场景中,平均长度缩短了11.48%,在避开障碍物的同时,满足UAV动力学约束。展开更多
Accelerating the convergence speed and avoiding the local optimal solution are two main goals of particle swarm optimization（PSO）. The very basic PSO model and some variants of PSO do not consider the enhancement of...Accelerating the convergence speed and avoiding the local optimal solution are two main goals of particle swarm optimization（PSO）. The very basic PSO model and some variants of PSO do not consider the enhancement of the explorative capability of each particle. Thus these methods have a slow convergence speed and may trap into a local optimal solution. To enhance the explorative capability of particles, a scheme called explorative capability enhancement in PSO（ECE-PSO） is proposed by introducing some virtual particles in random directions with random amplitude. The linearly decreasing method related to the maximum iteration and the nonlinearly decreasing method related to the fitness value of the globally best particle are employed to produce virtual particles. The above two methods are thoroughly compared with four representative advanced PSO variants on eight unimodal and multimodal benchmark problems. Experimental results indicate that the convergence speed and solution quality of ECE-PSO outperform the state-of-the-art PSO variants.展开更多
基金funded by International University,VNU-HCM under Grant Number T2021-02-IEM.
文摘Path planning is a prevalent process that helps mobile robots find the most efficient pathway from the starting position to the goal position to avoid collisions with obstacles.In this paper,we propose a novel path planning algorithm-Intermediary RRT*-PSO-by utilizing the exploring speed advantages of Rapidly exploring Random Trees and using its solution to feed to a metaheuristic-based optimizer,Particle swarm optimization(PSO),for fine-tuning and enhancement.In Phase 1,the start and goal trees are initialized at the starting and goal positions,respectively,and the intermediary tree is initialized at a random unexplored region of the search space.The trees were grown until one met the other and then merged and re-initialized in other unexplored regions.If the start and goal trees merge,the first solution is found and passed through a minimization process to reduce unnecessary nodes.Phase 2 begins by feeding the minimized solution from Phase 1 as the global best particle of PSO to optimize the path.After simulating two special benchmark configurations and six practice configurations with special cases,the results of the study concluded that the proposed method is capable of handling small to large,simple to complex continuous environments,whereas it was very tedious for the previous method to achieve.
文摘针对多障碍物环境下考虑无人机(Unmanned Aerial Vehicle,UAV)始末位姿、转弯半径和航迹长度的1阶光滑约束的UAV航迹规划问题,提出一种基于快速搜索随机树(Rapidly-exploring Random Trees,RRT)算法和Dubins曲线以局部最优逼近全局最优的UAV航迹优化方法。利用RRT算法和基于贪心算法的剪枝优化方法,在二维任务空间中规划出满足避障要求的可行离散航路点。采用多条Dubins曲线平滑连接航路点,根据UAV始末位姿确定首尾曲线端点,基于UAV性能、障碍物和飞行参数的约束关系,建立多约束的航迹优化数学模型。通过粒子群优化算法确定曲线类型,同时优化曲线连接处位姿和曲线半径,获得最短航迹。仿真结果表明:所提方法得到的航迹与其他方法相比,在不同障碍物数量和始末位姿的多种场景中,平均长度缩短了11.48%,在避开障碍物的同时,满足UAV动力学约束。
基金supported by the Aeronautical Science Fund of Shaanxi Province of China(20145596025)
文摘Accelerating the convergence speed and avoiding the local optimal solution are two main goals of particle swarm optimization（PSO）. The very basic PSO model and some variants of PSO do not consider the enhancement of the explorative capability of each particle. Thus these methods have a slow convergence speed and may trap into a local optimal solution. To enhance the explorative capability of particles, a scheme called explorative capability enhancement in PSO（ECE-PSO） is proposed by introducing some virtual particles in random directions with random amplitude. The linearly decreasing method related to the maximum iteration and the nonlinearly decreasing method related to the fitness value of the globally best particle are employed to produce virtual particles. The above two methods are thoroughly compared with four representative advanced PSO variants on eight unimodal and multimodal benchmark problems. Experimental results indicate that the convergence speed and solution quality of ECE-PSO outperform the state-of-the-art PSO variants.
