A method for solving TSP of steel pylon inspection by magnetic adsorption robots based on improved ant colony optimization

• Published in: 2021 WRC Symposium on Advanced Robotics and Automation (WRC SARA) pp. 188 - 194
• Main Authors: Jiang, Guojie, Wang, Peng, Wei, Shaobin, Tang, Zhihui, Wen, Yufang, Gao, He, Tao, Yong
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 11.09.2021
• Subjects: Adsorption; Ant colony optimization; Inspection; Optimization methods; Poles and towers; Simulation; Traveling salesman problems

For the problem of multi-point inspection of steel pylons by robots for very large bridges, the input inspection path points are abstracted as nodes and the weight of each path point is calculated according to the actual situation of the project, so as to establish a weighted undirected graph of the...