Unmanned aerial vehicle(UAV)was introduced to take road segment traffic surveillance.Considering the limited UAV maximum flight distance,UAV route planning problem was studied.First,a multi-objective optimization mode...Unmanned aerial vehicle(UAV)was introduced to take road segment traffic surveillance.Considering the limited UAV maximum flight distance,UAV route planning problem was studied.First,a multi-objective optimization model of planning UAV route for road segment surveillance was proposed,which aimed to minimize UAV cruise distance and minimize the number of UAVs used.Then,an evolutionary algorithm based on Pareto optimality technique was proposed to solve multi-objective UAV route planning problem.At last,a UAV flight experiment was conducted to test UAV route planning effect,and a case with three scenarios was studied to analyze the impact of different road segment lengths on UAV route planning.The case results show that the optimized cruise distance and the number of UAVs used decrease by an average of 38.43% and 33.33%,respectively.Additionally,shortening or extending the length of road segments has different impacts on UAV route planning.展开更多
基金Project(2009AA11Z220)supported by National High Technology Research and Development Program of ChinaProjects(61070112,61070116)supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China+1 种基金Project(2012LLYJTJSJ077)supported by the Ministry of Public Security of ChinaProject(KYQD14003)supported by Tianjin University of Technology and Education,China
文摘Unmanned aerial vehicle(UAV)was introduced to take road segment traffic surveillance.Considering the limited UAV maximum flight distance,UAV route planning problem was studied.First,a multi-objective optimization model of planning UAV route for road segment surveillance was proposed,which aimed to minimize UAV cruise distance and minimize the number of UAVs used.Then,an evolutionary algorithm based on Pareto optimality technique was proposed to solve multi-objective UAV route planning problem.At last,a UAV flight experiment was conducted to test UAV route planning effect,and a case with three scenarios was studied to analyze the impact of different road segment lengths on UAV route planning.The case results show that the optimized cruise distance and the number of UAVs used decrease by an average of 38.43% and 33.33%,respectively.Additionally,shortening or extending the length of road segments has different impacts on UAV route planning.
