A method for managing the tactical assignment of unmanned aerial vehicles in a group based on Bellman's optimality principle

Аuthors

Gorbunov S. A.^*, Mironovich S. Y., Savelyeva I. A.^**, Khatuntsev P. N.^***

Military Academy of Aerospace Defense Marshal of the Soviet Union Georgy Zhukov, 50, Zhigareva, Tver', 170000, Russia

*e-mail: gorbunov.sergey_2669@mail.ru
**e-mail: lsavelieva2007@gmail.com
***e-mail: olga.khatuntseva@rsce.ru

Abstract

Tactical assignment management for unmanned aerial vehicles is advisable for the purposes of increasing the effectiveness of their group operations and is possible through the distribution of tactical tasks within the group based on the prevailing aerial target situation, with the subsequent consideration of assigned tasks during the guidance of each unmanned aerial vehicle. The purpose of this article is to develop a method for tactical assignment management for unmanned aerial vehicles within a group, allowing for the distribution of specific tasks between them - the task of engaging enemy targets, and the task of observing and providing target designation to the unmanned aerial vehicle assigned to engage them. The method is based on Bellman's optimality principle, which states that regardless of the system's state at the current stage (step), stepwise control at that stage must be selected so that this and all subsequent steps are most advantageous. In other words, the optimal solution is reached by working backwards from the end of the task to the beginning. The result of this article is substantiated partial performance indicators for solving distributed tactical tasks within a group and a method for managing the tactical assignment of unmanned aerial vehicles within a group.
The practical significance of the article's materials lies in the fact that the implementation of the developed tactical assignment management method will allow, given the current airborne target situation, to assign a specific tactical task to each unmanned aerial vehicle based on the Bellman optimality principle. The solution to this task will subsequently improve the efficiency of the entire group of unmanned aerial vehicles. The method presented in the article can serve as a prototype for the development of this area of tactical assignment management.

Keywords:

group actions of unmanned aerial vehicles; tactical assignment management; distribution of tasks to be solved; efficiency matrix

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