Unmanned Combat Aircraft Coordinated Attack Multi-target Applications

With the progress of aviation science&technology and the requirement of air combat, as a member of the team to coordinate in the combat, Uninhabited Combat Air Vehicles (UCAV for short) become more important. This paper studies the coordination for multiple teams based on multiple UCAVs. First, presenting the problem of path planning for single UCAV. Secondly, on the assumption that the teams are made of by attacking groups, interfering groups and convoy groups, based on the method of Target Equalization, the paper proposes the method of Path Equalization to assign the targets, to Equalize the path length of each team.Specially,for the convoy groups, a threat index method is proposed to assign the air targets. Base on the aforementioned, the paper studies the attacking of attacking groups and the convoy groups. In the case of air-to-ground missile attacking, the cost distributing and the attacking effect are considered simultaneously, so the hit probability has been improved while the path cost has been reduced; in the case of air-to-air attacking, the air-to-air missile launch area is confirmed, so the difficulty of executing task for UCAVs is reduced.Simulation results demonstrating the feasibility of the approach are presented.