%0 Journal Article
	%A Gishantha Thantulage and  Tatiana Kalganova and  Manissa Wilson
	%D 2008
	%J International Journal of Computer and Information Engineering
	%B World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology
	%I Open Science Index 14, 2008
	%T Grid Based and Random Based Ant Colony Algorithms for Automatic Hose Routing in 3D Space
	%U https://publications.waset.org/pdf/989
	%V 14
	%X Ant Colony Algorithms have been applied to difficult
combinatorial optimization problems such as the travelling salesman
problem and the quadratic assignment problem. In this paper gridbased
and random-based ant colony algorithms are proposed for
automatic 3D hose routing and their pros and cons are discussed. The
algorithm uses the tessellated format for the obstacles and the
generated hoses in order to detect collisions. The representation of
obstacles and hoses in the tessellated format greatly helps the
algorithm towards handling free-form objects and speeds up
computation. The performance of algorithm has been tested on a
number of 3D models.
	%P 510 - 516