Real-time battery system aided by Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for attacking multiple moving targets
by Young Hwan Sohn, Hokey Min
International Journal of Operational Research (IJOR), Vol. 4, No. 4, 2009

Abstract: The timely repositioning of a long-range weapon, such as missiles, is crucial to attack moving targets. This paper proposes a stochastic model where Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are utilised to aid a battery of long-range weapons in acquiring moving targets, assessing their battle damage, and incorporating such information into the repositioning. A closed-form expression for the time-dependent state probabilities of the system is developed, which is used to estimate several important combat measures: the time-varying mean and variance of the number of surviving UAVs and surviving enemy targets; the mission success and failure rate and the probability of a combat draw; the mean and variance of the combat duration time.

Online publication date: Fri, 27-Feb-2009

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