Abstract:Currently, UAV inspection has become an efficient and safe means of inspection, especially in the field of power lines, oil pipelines and other fields with a wide range of application prospects; in order to improve the efficiency and accuracy of the UAV inspection, reduce the inspection time and cost, the study designed a UAV inspection path planning system based on BeiDou satellite navigation, and the ant colony algorithm is improved by introducing obstacle exclusion weights and new heuristic factors. The system uses the Beidou satellite navigation module to achieve high-precision positioning, and combines the dynamic obstacle repulsion potential field model to effectively improve the obstacle avoidance ability of the UAV in a complex environment. In addition, the system design fully considers the endurance capability and flight safety of the UAV, and realizes the efficient inspection of the UAV in the limited power by optimizing the path planning strategy. In the experiments, in the simple environment, the optimal path length of the improved ant colony algorithm has an optimal path length of 186.54m in simple environment and 200.32m in complex environment, both of which are significantly better than the traditional ant colony algorithm"s 238.64m and 248.34m; At the same time, in the dynamic obstacle scene, the improved ant colony algorithm performs better in path optimization, and the planned path has higher safety, which can effectively avoid the dynamic obstacle, thus reducing the collision risk. The results show that the improved ACO algorithm can effectively improve the efficiency and accuracy of UAV inspection, and reduce the inspection time and cost; the study provides an efficient and reliable solution for UAV inspection path planning, which can improve the efficiency and safety of inspection work.