A Hybrid Jump Search and Tabu Search Metaheuristic for the Unmanned Aaerial Vehicle Routing Problem

By Gary W. Kinne

In this research, we provide a new meta-heuristic, a jump search / tabu search hybrid, for addressing the vehicle routing problem with real-life constraints. A tour construction heuristic creates candidate solutions or jump points for the problem. A tabu search algorithm uses these jump points as starting points for a guided local search. We provide statistical analysis on the performance of our algorithm and compare it to other published algorithms. Our algorithm provides solutions within 10% of the best known solutions to benchmark problems and does so in a fraction of the time required by competing algorithms. The timeliness of the solution is vitally import to the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) routing problem. UAVs provide the lion s share of reconnaissance support for the US military. This reconnaissance mission requires the UAVs to visit hundreds of target areas in a rapidly changing combat environment. Air vehicie operators (AVOs) must prepare a viable mission plan for the UAVs while contending with such real-life constraints as time windows, target priorities, multiple depots, heterogeneous vehicle fleet, and pop-up threats. Our algorithm provides the AVOs with the tools to perform their mission quickly and efficiently.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1249592518
• ISBN13: 9781249592518
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Biblioscholar
• Length: 72 Pages
• Weight: 0.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 7.4" x 9.7"