Abstract:In response to the problem of dynamicization of search scope and numerous influencing factors leading to lower success rates in rescuing maritime distress targets, a maritime distress target search method based on improved particle swarm algorithm is proposed. The method aims to find the optimal search scheme and enhance the success rate of rescuing maritime distress targets. Based on the location information of distressed targets and search resource parameters, a maritime distress target search model is constructed. To enhance the initial global search and later local search capabilities of the particle swarm algorithm, a cosine curve adaptive method is adopted to improve the algorithm's inertia weight coefficient. To avoid a decrease in search efficiency or instability, an adaptive strategy is employed to adjust the acceleration while maintaining its total sum unchanged. A perturbation particle update mechanism is introduced to maintain population diversity and prevent falling into local optima. The improved algorithm is applied to practical search problems to validate its effectiveness. By utilizing a prior probability distribution map, the improved algorithm is compared with traditional particle swarm and genetic algorithms. The results indicate that the success rate of the improved algorithm is higher than that of traditional particle swarm and genetic algorithms.