A novel approach to solving weapon-target assignment problem based on hybrid particle swarm optimization algorithm

Abstract

This paper presents an approach based on hybrid particle swarm optimization to solve weapon-target assignment (WTA) problem. The mathematical model of WTA problem is explained in detail. Then the idea of basic particle swarm optimization (PSO) is introduced. A hybrid PSO algorithm (HPSO) is structured by introducing the mutation operator and changing the inertia weight with the generation. The results of simulation indicate that this approach is effective to solve WTA problem.