A path
planning method for a multi-unmanned-aerial-vehicle collaborative maritime search. The method comprises: acquiring and analyzing related
ocean current information of a region to be searched, and establishing an
ocean current model on the basis of the obtained
ocean current information (step 1); on the basis of the region to be searched, a
command and control center establishing a grid map by taking a
grid cell as a unit, and then establishing a target probability map on the basis of the related ocean current information of the region to be searched, prior target information and the grid map, wherein the target probability map provides the probability of a prior target being present in any
grid cell (step 2); if there is an obstacle in the region to be searched, the obstacle being represented by an irregular polygon, generating a segmentation line for region division by taking a vertex of the irregular polygon as one end point of the segmentation line and also meeting a limiting constraint condition for region division, so as to divide the region to be searched into Nr sub-regions, and the
command and control center allocating a sub-region to each unmanned aerial vehicle on the basis of the performance of the unmanned aerial vehicle by using a static allocation strategy (step 3); after the sub-region is allocated to each unmanned aerial vehicle, the
command and control center planning a cross-regional shortest path for each unmanned aerial vehicle and using a path
planning method to plan an unmanned aerial vehicle coverage path, so as to implement a single-region shortest-time coverage path (step 4); and monitoring the endurance state of each unmanned aerial vehicle during the process of executing a search task, and if it is found that the endurance capability is insufficient, recalling the unmanned aerial vehicle, and if a target is found or the search task is completed, recalling the unmanned aerial vehicle and returning to target coordinates (step 5).