Safety-enhanced UAV path planning with spherical vector-based particle swarm optimization

• Published in: Applied soft computing Vol. 107; p. 107376
• Main Authors: Phung, Manh Duong, Ha, Quang Phuc
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier B.V 01.08.2021
• Subjects: Particle swarm optimization; Path planning; UAV; Particle swarm optimization; Path planning; UAV

This paper presents a new algorithm named spherical vector-based particle swarm optimization (SPSO) to deal with the problem of path planning for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in complicated environments subjected to multiple threats. A cost function is first formulated to convert the path plannin...