A novel path planning method based on particle swarm optimization (PSO) is proposed to achieve cooperative formation cruise for multi-autonomous underwater vehicles (AUV). In particular, inspired by the virtual structure approach, particle in PSO is defined as a set of cooperative routes. These routes are composed by a series of navigation points including the initial points and the target points of corresponding vehicles. Given these navigation points, the optimization can be carried out in the search space described by vectors. By designing a reasonable cost function and a particle updating strategy, the method successfully coordinates the time and space of vehicles before vehicles arrived the formation-constrained positions, and simultaneously, preserves the formation constraint and avoids obstacles during the navigation, which provides a new perspective to address the cooperative path planning problem with a formation constraint. The feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed method are validated by experiments.


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    Title :

    A Formation-Constrained Cooperative Path Planning Method for Multi-autonomous Underwater Vehicles


    Contributors:
    Du, Shuangshuang (author) / Cai, Chao (author) / Wang, Houjun (author) / Li, Dongwu (author)


    Publication date :

    2017-04-01


    Size :

    295118 byte




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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