Research Article

The Path Planning and Location Method of Inspection Robot in a Large Storage Tank Bottom

Table 1

Comparison of path planning results of different algorithms under different obstacle distributions.

MethodsObstacles 1 (m = 39, ρ0 = 1.5)Obstacles 2 (m = 36, ρ0 = 1.0)Obstacles 3 (m = 20, ρ0 = 0.8)
P↑ (%)R↑ (%)RMSE (×102)P↑ (%)R↑ (%)RMSE (×102)P↑ (%)R↑ (%)RMSE (×102)

APF [24]
VT [33]71.0766.9434.7984.0780.3026.3891.6888.0914.23
IAPF [34]77.2872.7930.2386.0281.5116.1992.7889.7914.17
RPF (Our)77.5372.9926.6486.5582.1215.6392.5590.2713.08
APF + IR [24]
VT + IR [33]83.3375.6633.5390.2585.9122.2194.0891.1613.70
IAPF + IR [34]85.7877.9629.4891.9487.0813.9794.5491.6412.17
RPF + IR (Our)86.0478.1628.6392.1187.2013.6595.0691.7611.39

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