Multi-UAV Cooperative Path-Planning Under Complex Threat Environment

This paper proposes a cooperative path-planning method based on multi-Dubins path segments to meet the penetration requirements of UAVs in a complex threat environment. A pruning strategy is used in path-planning to sift path segments, and the diversity of threat avoidance paths is considered under a reasonable calculation amount. A threat intrusion strategy is designed for no safety path condition, which makes the cooperative path-planning method have excellent robustness. A cooperative path optimization method based on particle swarm optimization is adopted for the path length and collision avoidance requirements. The simulation results show that the UAV cooperative paths can avoid the threat area under any starting and ending points, and path lengths are close to the expected length.