A Combined Homing Trajectory Optimization Method of the Parafoil System Considering Intricate Constraints

Abstract

In order to achieve an accurate airdrop in the actual environment, the influence of complex interferences, such as wind field and the terrain of the environment, must be taken into account. Aiming at this problem, a combined trajectory planning strategy of a parafoil system subjected to intricate conditions is proposed in this paper. This method divides the parafoil airdrop area into an obstacle area and a landing area, then, considering the terrain environment surface, a model for the parafoil system in the wind field is built in the obstacle area. The Gauss pseudo-spectral method is used to transform the complex terrain environment constraint into a series of nonlinear optimal control problems with complex constraints. Finally, the trajectory of the landing area is designed by means of multiphase homing, and the target parameters are solved by the improved marine predator algorithm. The simulation results show that the proposed method has better realizability than a single homing strategy, and the optimization results of the improved marine predator algorithm have higher accuracy.

Keywords

• parafoil system
• trajectory planning
• intricate constraints
• Gauss pseudo-spectral method
• multiphase homing
• marine predator algorithm