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A Path Planning to Maximize Survivability for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle by using $A^*PS$-PGA  

Kim, Ki-Tae (Department of Operations Research, Korea National Defense University)
Jeon, Geon-Wook (Department of Operations Research, Korea National Defense University)
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Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering / v.34, no.3, 2011 , pp. 24-34 More about this Journal
Abstract
An Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) is a powered pilotless aircraft, which is controlled remotely or autonomously. UAVs are an attractive alternative for many scientific and military organizations. UAVs can perform operations that are considered to be risky or uninhabitable for human. UA V s are currently employed in many military missions such as reconnaissance, surveillance, enemy radar jamming, decoying, suppression of enemy air defense (SEAD), fixed and moving target attack, and air-to-air combat. UAVs also are employed in a number of civilian applications such as monitoring ozone depletion, inclement weather, traffic congestion, and taking images of dangerous territory. For accomplishing the UAV's missions, guarantee of survivability should be preceded. The main objective of this study is to suggest a mathematical programming model and a $A^*PS$-PGA (A-star with Post Smoothing-Parallel Genetic Algorithm) for an UAV's path planning to maximize survivability. A mathematical programming model is composed by using MRPP (Most Reliable Path Problem) and TSP (Traveling Salesman Problem). A path planning algorithm for UAV is applied by transforming MRPP into SPP (Shortest Path Problem).
Keywords
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle; Path Planning; $A^*$; Post Smoothing; Parallel Genetic Algorithm;
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