Ant colony optimization for agile motion planning

Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2006.

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Main Author: Krenzke, Tom (Tom Paul)
Other Authors: Marc McConley and Brent Appleby.
Format: Thesis
Language:eng
Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2007
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/35292
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spelling mit-1721.1/352922019-04-10T16:35:47Z Ant colony optimization for agile motion planning Krenzke, Tom (Tom Paul) Marc McConley and Brent Appleby. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Aeronautics and Astronautics. Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2006. This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections. Includes bibliographical references (p. 67-69). With the need for greater autonomy in unmanned vehicles growing, design of algorithms for mission-level planning becomes essential. The general field of motion planning for unmanned vehicles falls into this category. Of particular interest is the case of operating in hostile environments with unknown threat locations. When a threat appears, a replan must be quickly formulated and executed. The use of terrain masking to hide from the threat is a vital tactic, which a good algorithm should exploit. In addition, the algorithm should be able to accommodate large search spaces and non-linear objective functions. This thesis investigates the suitability of the Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) heuristic for the agile vehicle motion planning problem. An ACO implementation tailored to the motion planning problem was designed and tested against an existing genetic algorithm solution method for validation. Results show that ACO is indeed a viable option for real-time trajectory generation. ACO' ability to incorporate heuristic information, and its method of solution construction, make it better suited to motion planning problems than existing methods. by Tom Krenzke. S.M. 2007-01-10T15:35:17Z 2007-01-10T15:35:17Z 2006 2006 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/35292 74278842 eng M.I.T. theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission. http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582 69 p. 1912374 bytes 1975792 bytes application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Ant colony optimization for agile motion planning
title Ant colony optimization for agile motion planning
title_full Ant colony optimization for agile motion planning
title_fullStr Ant colony optimization for agile motion planning
title_full_unstemmed Ant colony optimization for agile motion planning
title_short Ant colony optimization for agile motion planning
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topic Aeronautics and Astronautics.
url http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/35292
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