Research on Autonomous Decision-Making in Manned/Unmanned Coordinated Air Combat

The manned/unmanned coordinated swarm is a typical type of aviation swarm, and its application in modern air combat can bring into play the performance advantages of manned platforms and the scale advantages of the number of unmanned aircraft, and bring into play the overall combat effectiveness through manned/unmanned coordination. This paper focuses on the key technologies for autonomous decision-making in manned/unmanned collaborative air combat. Firstly, the operational processes of defensive and offensive cooperative air combat are analysed in a given operational mission scenario, and then the key technologies of cooperative air combat are presented in three aspects: tactical guidance-oriented pre-engagement formation operations, real-time target allocation based on unbalanced mission assignment and tracking and guidance methods based on the advantages of cooperative guidance. Finally, the simulation results show that the key techniques of autonomous decision making given in this paper can effectively carry out strikes against the enemy and improve our victory rate.