The invention discloses an unmanned aerial vehicle target tracking and intelligent
route planning method based on YOLO and DSM, and the method comprises the steps: enabling an unmanned aerial vehicle to collect
video streaming, thermal imaging and distance information in real time through a multi-
modal sensor, fusing the multi-
modal data through Kalman filtering, detecting a target through a YOLOv11 model, and outputting the position, category and confidence information of the target; a DeepSORT
algorithm is adopted to continuously track a target, Kalman filtering is combined to predict a target motion trajectory, and a Hungary
algorithm is adopted to realize matching of target detection and a tracking trajectory, so that stable tracking in a complex environment is ensured; the flight path of the unmanned aerial vehicle is planned by using
terrain elevation information provided by the DSM and combining with an improved A *
algorithm, so that the unmanned aerial vehicle is ensured to avoid obstacles and keep continuous tracking of a target in a complex
terrain environment; through a
reinforcement learning algorithm, the unmanned aerial vehicle can dynamically adjust the
route planning according to the motion state of the target and the environment change, and it is ensured that the
system can automatically re-plan the
route when the target is lost or the environment obstacle is newly added.