Research Article

An Improved Method of Particle Swarm Optimization for Path Planning of Mobile Robot

Table 4

The first comparison of path length of five algorithms in the complex environment.

AlgorithmLongest pathShortest pathAverage pathAverage time (s)

PSO31.2113.7315.8410.89
RandWPSO22.4913.0713.6715.10
TFPSO26.5013.0014.0016.22
NCFPSO26.4013.0713.9210.83
IPSO22.4412.8413.389.70