Abstract:

Under the background of air-to-ground attack, the cooperative attack model of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) formation is built up and the deployment optimization method of the team is investigated based on a multi-index orthogonal experimental design. Firstly, the target assignment models of both sides are built up with kinds of weapons and targets. Secondly, the attack model is researched, which contains targets detection, identification, kill and evaluation steps. Thirdly, the objective function is constructed based on total cost of the mission, injury degree of ground targets and duration of the attack. Finally, the determination method of the best configuration of formation is studied based on the orthogonal experimental design theory which regards the sort and quantity of UAV as factors and levels in the experiment, respectively. Experiment results show that the method can give an optimization deployment strategy for the given mission with restrictions.