Optimal SAM Defense System. An Application of Optimal Control Concept to Operations Research

Abstract

An operations research concerning the optimal SAM firing pattern to defend an aircraft carrier is solved via applications of the concept of closed- loop (feedback) and open-loop optimal control. The SAM defense problem is formulated as a Markov decision process with the number of SAMs in each salvo as the decision variable. Interesting cases, including the presence of imperfect sensor observation and a bound on the number of SAMs available, are considered. The principle of dynamic programming and the technique of nonlinear integer programming are applied to reach closed-loop and open-loop solutions. Numerical examples are given for illustration.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 18, 1971
Accession Number
AD0717942

Entities

People

  • Jong-Sen Lee

Organizations

  • United States Naval Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Sensors
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Defense
  • Aircraft Carriers
  • Aircrafts
  • Algorithms
  • Computer Programming
  • Control Theory
  • Defense Systems
  • Dynamic Programming
  • Equations
  • Feedback
  • Integer Programming
  • Markov Processes
  • Military Research
  • Operations Research
  • Optimization
  • Probability
  • Steady State

Readers

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