In unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) path planning, evolutionary algorithms are commonly used due to their ability to handle high-dimensional spaces and wide generality. However, traditional evolutionary algorithms have difficulty with population initialization and may fall into local optima. This paper proposes an improved genetic algorithm (GA) based on expert strategies, including a novel rapidly exploring random tree (RRT) initialization algorithm and a cross-variation process based on expert guidance and the wolf pack search algorithm. Experimental results on baseline functions in different scenarios show that the proposed RRT initialization algorithm improves convergence speed and computing time for most evolutionary algorithms. The expert guidance strategy helps algorithms jump out of local optima and achieve suboptimal solutions that should have converged. The ERRT-GA is tested for task assignment, path planning, and multi-UAV conflict detection, and it shows faster convergence, better scalability to high-dimensional spaces, and a significant reduction in task computing time compared to other evolutionary algorithms. The proposed algorithm outperforms most other methods and shows great potential for UAV path planning problems.


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    Title :

    ERRT-GA: Expert Genetic Algorithm with Rapidly Exploring Random Tree Initialization for Multi-UAV Path Planning


    Contributors:
    Hong Xu (author) / Zijing Niu (author) / Bo Jiang (author) / Yuhang Zhang (author) / Siji Chen (author) / Zhiqiang Li (author) / Mingke Gao (author) / Miankuan Zhu (author)


    Publication date :

    2024




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    Unknown




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