Mission-based command and control behavior model

Abstract

The command and control behavior modeling is an important part of military analytical simulation. However, weaknesses including hard modeling, poor expansibility and little flexibility still exist in current command and control behavior models. In this paper, a mission-based command and control behavior model is designed, which consists of a Compound Mission Module as well as a General Mission Management Module. The Compound Mission Module based on improved hierarchical task network (HTN) not only supports hierarchical mission structuring but further extends HTN's ability of describing temporal and logical relations among sub-missions. This module helps to improve the expansibility and flexibility of the behavior model to some extent. The General Mission Management Module provides uniform mission management method and compound mission inner controlling method for combat entities. It spares the effort of developers to design specific logics for mission management and thus makes them more concentrating on detailed lower level mission modeling. Experiment results show that this mission-based command and control behavior model not only reduces the difficulty of modeling but also improves its expansibility and flexibility.