Feasible Flight Paths for Cooperative Generation of a Phantom Radar Track
Abstract
Electronic attack on air defense radar networks by a team of Electronic Combat Air Vehicles (ECAVs) is explored. The scope of the attack considered is the creation of a coherent phantom track in two dimensions range and azimuth by a team of cooperatively controlled ECAVs, where each ECAV is capable of intercepting and sending delayed returns of radar pulse. Severe restrictions are shown when a constant-speed ECAV and constant-speed phantom track are assumed. Dynamic limitations on an ECAV are presented mathematically and through simulation for straight and circular phantom tracks and specified ranges on the phantom target speed, ECAV speed, and ECAV region of antenna operation. Based on results for a straight or circular phantom track, generalized bounds for the initial conditions and time-dependent flyable ranges of a team of ECAVs are presented. These bounds are then used with coordination functions to formulate a decentralized cooperative control problem for the scenario of three radars versus three ECAVs generating a straight phantom track.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Aug 19, 2004
- Accession Number
- ADA445123
Entities
People
- Keith B. Purvis
- Meir Pachter
- Phillip R. Chandler
Organizations
- University of California, Santa Barbara