Path Planning for Indoor UAV Using A* and Late Acceptance Hill Climbing Algorithms Utilizing Probabilistic Roadmap

  • Authors

    • Jacob Hopkins
    • Forrest Joy
    • Alaa Sheta Texas A&M University-corpus Christi, TX, USA
    • Hamza Turabieh
    • Dulal Kar
    2020-10-23
    https://doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v9i4.31033
  • UAV, Probabilistic Road Mapping, A*, Late Acceptance Hill-Climbing.
  • The main objective of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) path planning is to generate a flight path that links a start point to an endpoint in an indoor space avoiding obstacles.  Path planning is essential for many real-life applications such as an autonomous car, surveillance mission, farming robots, unmanned aerial vehicles package delivery, space exploration, and many others. To create an optimal path, we need to adopt a specific criterion to minimize the distance the UAV must travel such as the Euclidean distance. In this paper, we provide our initial idea of creating an optimal path for indoor UAV using both A* and the Late Acceptance Hill Climbing (LAHC) algorithms. We are adopting an indoor search environment with various complexity and utilize the Probabilistic Roadmap algorithm (PRM) as a search space for both algorithms. The basic idea following PRM is to generate random sample points in the space and search these points for an optimal path. The developed results show that the LAHC algorithm outperforms the A* algorithm.

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    Hopkins, J., Joy, F., Sheta, A., Turabieh, H., & Kar, D. (2020). Path Planning for Indoor UAV Using A* and Late Acceptance Hill Climbing Algorithms Utilizing Probabilistic Roadmap. International Journal of Engineering & Technology, 9(4), 857-862. https://doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v9i4.31033