A method of calibrating fixing errors based on simplified ant colony algorithm

Fixing positioning errors calibration of payload will help to improve the payload´s performance. Several kinds of methods of correcting errors and their own characteristics are referred to and a new fixing positioning errors correction method of photoelectric payload of aerial mobile platform is proposed based on simplified ant colony system. By simulation of both minor errors and major errors, rapid convergence and high accuracy is achieved, which avoids the limitation of previous methods, only having effect on minor fixing positioning errors. Furthermore, the new method is tested and validated by practical data. In a way, the new method will help to solve practical fixing positioning errors calibration problem.