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<p>In the process of rational development and utilisation of nuclear energy, people often face nuclear accidents such as lost and stolen radioactive sources; so, the means of searching for these sources quickly in highly radioactive environments is an important security challenge. In the past, these jobs were limited to workers specialising in nuclear technology. They used gamma-ray detection equipment to search for radioactive sources, but the search efficiency was low. The main purpose of this article is to design a meta-heuristic algorithm based on imitating professional technicians to locate radioactive sources in a computer-aided manner. At the same time, due to the complexity that may characterise the actual search, the search strategy must be optimised. The article established an intelligent random search model with human thinking. Finally, it was proved based on the mathematical theory that the complexity of the model search algorithm is linear, and the simulation experiment results show that the optimisation algorithm has good efficiency and fault tolerance.</p>
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In the process of rational development and utilisation of nuclear energy, people often face nuclear accidents such as lost and stolen radioactive sources; so, the means of searching for these sources quickly in highly radioactive environments is an important security challenge. In the past, these jobs were limited to workers specialising in nuclear technology. They used gamma-ray detection equipment to search for radioactive sources, but the search efficiency was low. The main purpose of this article is to design a meta-heuristic algorithm based on imitating professional technicians to locate radioactive sources in a computer-aided manner. At the same time, due to the complexity that may characterise the actual search, the search strategy must be optimised. The article established an intelligent random search model with human thinking. Finally, it was proved based on the mathematical theory that the complexity of the model search algorithm is linear, and the simulation experiment results show that the optimisation algorithm has good efficiency and fault tolerance.

Radioactive source search problem and optimisation model based on meta-heuristic algorithm

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Applied Mathematics and Nonlinear Sciences

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In the process of rational development and utilisation of nuclear energy, people often face nuclear accidents such as lost and stolen radioactive sources; so,...

Radioactive source search problem and optimisation model based on meta-heuristic algorithm

Published Online: Mar 31, 2022

Page range: 601 - 630

Received: May 05, 2021

Accepted: Jul 29, 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/amns.2021.2.00159

Keywords
nuclear radioactive source, random search algorithm, complexity

© 2021 Min Zhang et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Radioactive source search problem and optimisation model based on meta-heuristic algorithm

Published Online: Mar 31, 2022

Page range: 601 - 630

Received: May 05, 2021

Accepted: Jul 29, 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/amns.2021.2.00159

Keywordsnuclear radioactive source, random search algorithm, complexity

© 2021 Min Zhang et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Keywords
nuclear radioactive source, random search algorithm, complexity