Optimizing the Flight Route of UAV Using Biology Migration Algorithm

Q Y Zhang,S Y Jiang,Y Q Dong,X Y He,H Song

doi:10.1088/1742-6596/2025/1/012052

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https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/2025/1/012052

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Abstract

Optimizing the flight trajectory unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is always a popular optimization problem in computation intelligence field, which aims to search optimal flight path for avoiding detection and complementing some highly difficult missions in complex military environments. This paper mainly utilizes a recent proposed biology migration algorithm (BMA) inspired by the species migration mechanism for dealing with the UAV trajectory optimization problem. The main goal of the UAV model is to search feasible parameters including the flight angle, coordinates and distance for minimizing the flight price computed based on the threat and fuel costs. As one of swarm intelligence techniques, BMA has the characteristics of self-organization, fast convergence and self-adaption in the optimization process, So, it is able to find a safe flight route between the start point and target point while avoiding the dangerous regions and minimum cost. Simulation experiments show that BMA can generate promising and better results with respective to other compared algorithms.

Highlights

With the development of science and artificial intelligence (AI) technology, the research on path planning of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have gained growing attention in recent years, since it has been widely appeared in various domains, such as mission planning system [1], aerial photography [2], surveillance [3], and search-and-rescue tasks [4]
Various optimization techniques have been designed in dealing with this problem, genetic algorithm [5], evolutionary computation [6], ACO-DE algorithm [7], collective decision optimization algorithm [8]
In this paper, a recent and efficient heuristic algorithm named biology migration algorithm (BMA) is utilized to solve the pathplanning of UAV problem

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Introduction

With the development of science and artificial intelligence (AI) technology, the research on path planning of UAV have gained growing attention in recent years, since it has been widely appeared in various domains, such as mission planning system [1], aerial photography [2], surveillance [3], and search-and-rescue tasks [4]. This paper mainly utilizes a recent proposed biology migration algorithm (BMA) inspired by the species migration mechanism for dealing with the UAV trajectory optimization problem.

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