The invention discloses a mobile robot path planning method based on an ant colony algorithm under a dynamic environment. The method comprises the following steps of 1, modeling the environment by using a grating method; 2, building local diffusion information pheromone tau''rs; 4, computing a transition probability; 5, adding a feasible node S into a tabu table; 6, completing paths; 7, acquiringthe shortest path via path information recorded in the tabu table; 8, updating pheromone matrix elements; and 9, finding the optimal path via iteration, that is to say an algorithm ending condition ismet, and outputting a final result. According to the ant colony algorithm based on a potential field method provided by the invention, the faster convergence speed and optimizing ability are provided, the local diffusion information pheromone has relative good smoothness, the collaboration ability of individual ants is further enhanced, the local cross paths are reduced, the quantity of lost antsis reduced, and thus the ant colony algorithm is converged to the global optimum with the faster speed, and meanwhile also achieves the diversity of learning, and the defect that an artificial potential field method is easy to trap in the local optimum is overcome.