GU Yuqi, LI Junqiu, YANG Yongxi, et al. A Rapid Global Path Planning Method for Unmanned Tracked Vehicles Considering Energy Consumption[J]. Acta Armamentarii, 2026, 47(1): 250212.
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GU Yuqi, LI Junqiu, YANG Yongxi, et al. A Rapid Global Path Planning Method for Unmanned Tracked Vehicles Considering Energy Consumption[J]. Acta Armamentarii, 2026, 47(1): 250212. DOI: 10.12382/bgxb.2025.0212.
A Rapid Global Path Planning Method for Unmanned Tracked Vehicles Considering Energy Consumption
Global path planning in complex off-road environments is one of the key technologies for realizing the autonomous driving of unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs ) . However
there is limited research on energy-efficient path planning for tracked vehicles in the industry
and currently commonly used path planning algorithms are unable to balance both the solution quality and the computational efficiency
making them impractical for real-time energy-optimal global path planning of tracked vehicles. To address this issue
this paper proposes an optimal energy-fast probabilistic roadmap algorithm (OPRA) for tracked vehicles
An off-road energy consumption cost model considering the characteristics of tracked vehicles is established to quantify their energy consumption under off-road conditions
The sampling method of the probabilistic roadmap algorithm in off-road environments is directionally improved by creating specific vectors
enhancing the running speed of the algorithm while reducing the energy consumption of tracked vehicles. Meanwhile
a method for increasing the density of path node ia used to prevent the interference between paths and the environment. Compared with traditional algorithms
the proposed algorithm can reduce the energy consumption and the planning time by up to 32% and 89. 2%
respectively
in off-road environments
achieving the comprehensive optimization of both travel energy consumption and algorithm runtime for global path planning of tracked vehicles under off-road conditions.
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