UAV Path Planning Based on Simultaneous Optimization of Monitoring Frequency and Security

Abstract

UAVs have great potential when applied to persistent monitoring, but there are still problems such as difficulty in ensuring the monitoring frequency and easy leakage of monitoring path information. Therefore, it is necessary to increase the UAV monitoring frequency of targets and the randomness of monitoring paths as much as possible on the premise of covering all monitoring tasks. In response to the above problems, this paper studies the UAV path planning problem of simultaneous optimization of monitoring frequency and path security. Through the evaluation of monitoring frequency and path security based on monitoring overdue time and path entropy, a mathematical model for UAV path planning is established. An improved ant colony algorithm based on the monitoring overdue time (Overdue-aware Ant Colony Optimization, OACO) is designed, and finally the UAV flight trajectory with high monitoring frequency and the high monitoring path security is obtained. The simulation results show that the method proposed in this paper can effectively improve the monitoring frequency of each monitoring node to be accessed, improve the security of the UAV monitoring path, which is of great significance for enhancing monitoring security and preventing intrusion.