Mission Effectiveness Evaluation of Manned/Unmanned Aerial Team based on OODA and Agent-Based Simulation

Abstract

Coordinated operation of manned and unmanned aerial vehicles is being taken as an important operation mode by military and research institutions in various countries. However, the complex coordination of aircrafts in the fleet has caused great difficulties for the evaluation of mission effectiveness. This paper studies the method to evaluate the mission effectiveness of manned/ unmanned aerial team based on agent-based simulation and proposes an approach called resource consumption analyze to establish evaluation index system. This approach decomposes missions into multiple tasks, and further decomposes the process of tasks based on Observe-Orient-Decide-Act (OODA) to facilitate modeling tasks and developing evaluation indicators. Moreover, this paper builds the behavior models of combat units based on OODA and conducts several simulation experiments to evaluate the mission effectiveness of manned/unmanned aerial team. These experiments show that the evaluation approach based on OODA and agent-based simulation can help to evaluate the mission effectiveness of manned/unmanned aerial team and design more suitable aircraft for future warfare.