A Game-Theoretic Model for One-on-One Air Combat. Issue 22 (2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Ramteke, Vivek; Comandur, Vinodhini; Makkapati, Venkata Ramana; Kothari, Mangal
• Is Part Of: IFAC-PapersOnLine. Volume 55:Issue 22(2022)
• Page Start: 261
• Page End: 267
• Publication Date: 2022
• Subjects: Aircraft combat -- basic flighter maneuvers -- zero-sum game -- mixed-strategy Nash equilibrium; Automatic control -- Periodicals; 629.805
• DOI: 10.1016/j.ifacol.2023.03.044
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2405-8963

Abstract

Abstract: The primary goal of air combat maneuvering is to neutralize the enemy under any circumstances. A critical step in achieving this goal is to gain and maintain aerial advantage by choosing and executing appropriate flighter maneuvers. In this paper, one-on-one air combat is modeled as a two-player zero-sum game to obtain optimal strategies for the players to select the flighter maneuvers. A new approach for constructing the game payoff function that accounts for the loss/gain of aerial advantage during the execution of a maneuver is proposed. A case study to evaluate the proposed approach, by comparing it with an existing approach, is performed through computer simulations.