Scientific Reports (Jun 2025)
Public security patrol path planning recommendation method based on wolf-pack optimization algorithm using DAF and BRS
Abstract
Abstract The public security patrol path planning plays a key role in public security work, however, existing ones has varying degrees of shortcomings. To address these shortcomings, this paper proposes a public security patrol path planning recommendation method based on an improved wolf-pack optimization algorithm (S3PRM-DAF-BRS-CWOA). Firstly, an optimization objective function regarding the public security patrol path planning (S3P-Function) was abstracted from the actual situation; Moreover, this paper proposed an improved wolf-pack optimization algorithm named DAF-BRS-CWOA using Dynamic-Adjustment-Factor(DAF) and Balanced-Raid-Strategy (BRS), and DAF devoted to adjust the overall wolf-pack running strategy by dynamically adjusting the number of airdropped wolves during the stage of Summon-Raid while BRS with symmetric property was to improve both the algorithm’s global exploration as well as the local development capabilities by increasing the number of checking locations, that means not only checking the reverse position of the current wolf, but also the positions generated according to certain rules between the reverse position of the current wolf and the current optimal wolf during the stage of Summon-Raid; Finally, DAF-BRS-CWOA was adopted to optimize S3P-Function, forming a public security patrol path planning recommendation method based on DAF-BRS-CWOA (S3PRM-DAF-BRS-CWOA). 30 independent numerical experiments were conducted on 20 public classical datasets by DAF-BRS-CWOA compared with GA, PSO, WDX-WPOA. The results indicated that the time-spent of DAF-BRS-CWOA was shortened and the optimization accuracy is the highest as well as S3PRM-DAF-BRS-CWOA has the best effect and is more time-efficient for solving public safety patrol path planning.
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