Unmanned aerial vehicle detection path optimization of ship exhaust emissions considering real-time location of ships
To improve the efficiency of unmanned aerial vehi-cle(UAV)detection of ship exhaust emissions,the path planning problem of UAV when both UAV and ship were mov-ing simultaneously has been investigated.Aiming at the real-time changes of the ships position during the detection process,the"meeting"model was adopted to solve the en-counter position of ships and UAV,and a UAV path optimiza-tion model targeting the minimum flight distance of moving ships was established to achieve collaborative detection of multiple UAVs accordingly.The two-stage algorithm by combi-ning sequence insertion algorithm and a genetic algorithm based on two ship sequence decomposition strategies,DroneByDrone and ShipByShip were designed to achieve UAV path optimization in scenarios of different scales.Numerical experiments show that a path optimization method that taking into account of both UAV flight and ship navigation can effec-tively improve the detection efficiency of moving ships.Both algorithms can successfully solve the model,but compared to the two-stage algorithm,the genetic algorithm can shorten the solving time by 65.12%,meeting the requirements of solving timeliness.The flight distance of UAVs is significantly sensi-tive to the number of UAVs,in the same dataset,dispatching two UAVs can optimize the flight distance by 25%compared to three UAVs,but the detection time will be correspondingly delayed by 8%.By comprehensively optimizing the position of UAV base stations,the number and speed of UAVs based on experimental scenarios,the flight distance of UAVs can be ef-fectively shortened,and the detection efficiency can be im-proved.