Research on the model of unmanned aerial vehicle formation cooperative reconnaissance

Air-to-ground cooperative reconnaissance with UAVs is the main application aspect in UAV's operation research. This paper addresses the problem of UAV formation cooperative reconnaissance, and the models associated with it are built which contain targets search for, identification and reconnaissance time aspects; then the factors influencing formation's cooperative reconnaissance capability are discussed with an simple but illuminating instantiation according to information share mechanism and formation constitution. Investigating the models of the problem is the basic of optimizing the constitution and share mechanism.