Original scientific paper
Evolutionary Algorithm Based Off-Line Path Planner for UAV Navigation
Ioannis K. Nikolos
Nikos C. Tsourveloudis
Kimon P. Valavanis
Abstract
An off-line path planner for Unmanned Air Vehicles is presented. The planner is based on Evolutionary Algorithms, in order to calculate a curved pathline with desired characteristics in a three-dimensional environment. The pathline is represented using B-Spline curves, with the coordinates of its control points being the genes of the Evolutionary Algorithm artificial chromosome. The method was tested in an artificial three-dimensional terrain, for different starting and ending points, providing very smooth pathlines under difficult constraints.
Keywords
B-Splines; 3-D path planning; evolutionary algorithms; navigation; UAV
Hrčak ID:
6615
URI
Publication date:
21.12.2001.
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