Incentive Control for a Tactical Air Control System.
Abstract
It is the purpose of this thesis to demonstrate how incentive theory may be applied to the problem of hierarchical control within the Tactical Air Control System (TACS). In Chapter 2, we supply the necessary background in incentive theory, as it applies to organization and their elements whose operations can be modeled by objective functions. Also in this Chapter, we briefly define the structure of a typical TACS. Then, in Chapter 3, we provide a very simple model of the basic building block of the TACS, the Modular Control Element (MCE). Finally, in Chapters 4 and 5, we proposed two methods for applying incentive control to the leader-follower relationship between the Tactical Air Control Center (TACC) and the MCE. The first method, the piece-wise linear approach, provides total insensitivity to variations in an internal parameter of the MCE model, while the second method, the quadratic approach, provides only minimum sensitivity but is more analytically appealing. Each of the these chapters also contains a numerical example of help illustrate the concepts.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jan 01, 1984
- Accession Number
- ADA142800
Entities
People
- S. Van Tonningen
Organizations
- Air Force Institute of Technology