rescueefficiency[J].MathematicsinPracticeandTheory,2020,50(7):115126.GeneralaviationtrajectoryplanningforrescueinmountainousareasbasedonflightsafetyAIHong-zhou,HEXin,LIUQuan-yi,HUMao-qi(CollegeofCivilAviationSafetyEngineering,CivilAviationFlightUniversityofChina,Guanghan618307,Sichuan,China)Abstract:Todealwiththehighcomplexityterrainproblemofthegeneralaviationmountainrescueflightenvironment,thispaperaimstofindathree-dimensionalrescuetrackplanningmodelbasedonanimprovedantcolonyalgorithm.Forthispurpose,itwouldbenecessarytoacquiretherealmountainterrainenvironmentdatatoestablishthethree-dimensionalflightenvironmentmodel.Thedataarehomogenizedandinterpolatedtomatchthegridsizeofthe3Dflightenvironmentmodelwhichisdeterminedbytherescueaircraftsafeoperationrules.Meanwhile,itcanimprovethesolutionefficiencyandaccuracyofthetrackplanningmodel.Then,takingtheshortestflightpathinthree-dimensionalspaceastheobjectivefunctionandtheflightperformanceoftheaircraft,suchasminimumdirectflightdistance,maximumpitchangle,maximumyawangle,maximumflightdistance,andflyingrange,astheconstraints,thepathoptimizationmodelisestablished.And,secondly,thetraditionalantcolonyalgorithmisimprovedbyreasonablysettingtheinitialpheromoneconcentrationdistributionandpheromoneconcentrationupdaterules.Theimprovedantcolonyalgorithmimprovesthesearchefficiencyandensuresthesafetyofaircraftflightpathsbynarrowingthesearchscope,avoidingtheblindnessofsearch,andautomaticallyavoidingobstacles.Finally,weusetheimprovedantcolonyalgorithmtosimulateandanalyzetherouteplanningofanavigationrescueinthesouthwestmountainousareaofChinaandgettheaircraftroutingpathunderthisalgorithm.Thedistanceerrorbetweentheaircraftroutingpathundertheimprovedalgorithmandthesphericalstraightlineiscontrolledwithin15%.Thepitchangleanddeflectionangleoftheaircraftroutingpathmeetthesafeflightrules,andthenumberofdeflectiontimesisless.Thesimulationresultsshowthatthegeneralaviationemergencyrescuetrajectoryplanningintherealmo...