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Most path planning algorithms choose path length as the evaluation criterion for algorithm performance. However, considering the driving and environmental costs, the car’s fuel consumption is also critical. This paper proposes an improved A* algorithm based on fuel consumption. Because there are driving stages and idling stages in the driving process, the latter mainly occurs when the car meets the red lights. Accordingly, we make the same improvement to the A* algorithm; the fuel consumption of each part corresponds to the composition of the evaluation function of the A* algorithm. Finally, we use the abstract map and set different red light proportions to compare the algorithm’s performance. The experimental results show that with the red light proportion increase, the improved A* algorithm can reduce the fuel consumption by up to 16.949% compared with the original A* algorithm.



















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This study was supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2017YFB0102500), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (61872158,62172186), the Science and Technology Development Plan Project of Jilin Province (20190701019GH), the Korea Foundation for Advanced Studies’ International Scholar Exchange Fellowship for the academic year of 2017-2018, the Fundamental Research Funds for the Chongqing Research Institute, and Jilin University (2021DQ0009).
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Liu, T., Zhang, J. An improved path planning algorithm based on fuel consumption. J Supercomput 78, 12973–13003 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11227-022-04395-6
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