Abstract
Multi-constraint trajectory planning for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has been widely used in military and civil fields. The existing path planning methods, such as swarm intelligence algorithm and graph-based algorithm, cannot incorporate the flying time and UAV kinematic model into evolution. To overcome such disadvantage, a method of solving trajectory planning under obstacles and multi-constraint is investigated in this paper. Firstly, the flying time is discretized as a certain number of Chebyshev points which are the optimized moments of control variable, and they can reduce the computational burden. The process of solution is divided into multi-phase, i.e., two points as a phase to generate the trajectory. Then, angular velocity is taken as control variable, and function of angular velocity is solved by cubic spline interpolation. Besides, functions of angle and position are obtained by integration. The results are substituted into the model consisted by particle swarm optimization (PSO) and the UAV kinematic model to optimize. On this basis, the angular velocity, angle and position are calculated according to the allocated moments. Finally, Monte-Carlo simulation and comparison with existed method are carried out in obstacle environment. All the results illustrate that the multi-phase method can calculate the kinematic parameters of UAV accurately and plan smooth trajectories. Meanwhile, the proposed method is easier to meet the complicated constraints than the single-phase method. In addition, the dimensionality of solution is also enriched effectively.
Highlights
Unmanned system is becoming more common as it can complete complicated missions without human intervention
When unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) carries out mission, trajectory planning system can provide route guidance for flight system, which is important for UAV to realize autonomous flight and to enhance the autonomy level
The strong coupling relationship between the UAV kinematic model and particle swarm optimization (PSO) was considered, only a general framework, and some verifications and analysis of simulation were proposed for trajectory planning problem
Summary
Unmanned system is becoming more common as it can complete complicated missions without human intervention. Apart from the utilization in UAV path planning, some researchers have focused on PSO theoretical analysis and improvements Taking both advantages of swarm intelligence algorithm and numerical methods, it may provide a meaningful and effective solution for UAV trajectory planning by involving UAV kinematic model with swarm intelligence algorithm. The strong coupling relationship between the UAV kinematic model and PSO was considered, only a general framework, and some verifications and analysis of simulation were proposed for trajectory planning problem. A new method of solving UAV trajectory planning is proposed in this paper, which mainly includes that UAV kinematic model is combined with PSO to generate the trajectory, and the final values of control variable and state variable are obtained by cubic spline interpolation and integration.
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