Optimal Defense of High Value Airborne Assets
Abstract
Optimal control theory and differential game theory is applied to the study of the defense of high value airborne assets, particularly in the case of a single threat such as an adversarial aircraft or missile. Rather than utilizing onboard defenses of the high value airborne asset, defense is proposed using a teamed unmanned combat air vehicle. The unmanned combat air vehicle provides defense by one of two ways: kinetic or directed energy. When defense if kinetic in nature, the defender launches a missile which strives to reach the threat before the threat reaches the high value airborne asset damage to the pursuer is dealt though capture. When defense is provided though directed energy, the defender strives to keep the incoming threat inside its weapon engagement zone for as long as possible damage to the pursuer is dealt over time. Optimal strategies for unmanned combat air vehicle, high value airborne asset and the pursuing threat are investigated though a series of engagements which are posed as either optimal control problems or differential game.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Mar 01, 2021
- Accession Number
- AD1135184
Entities
People
- Isaac E. Weintraub
Organizations
- Air Force Institute of Technology