A two-stage cooperative detection method based on an adaptive large neighborhood search algorithm was developed to fulfill the requirements for planning the path and allocating tasks for underwater unmanned vehicle (UUV) clusters in mine detection missions governed by underwater acoustic communication. Adopting a "coarse sweeping full coverage + fine sweeping path planning" strategy
the method first dynamically optimizes the speed of the UUV by incorporating communication constraints
enabling multi-UUV collaboration to achieve coarse sweeping of the sea area and the location of suspicious target regions. Subsequently
a refined scanning of the suspicious target regions is conducted. Moreover
aiming to maximize the detection efficiency
a capacitated vehicle routing problem model is employed for path planning across multiple suspicious target regions. The numerical simulation demonstrates that the proposed method can generate high-efficiency detection schemes based on the sea area
communication bandwidth
and the number of UUVs. The marginal benefit quantification model further verifies the cost-effectiveness and efficacy of this approach.
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