Task allocation in cooperative air combat based on multi-agent coalition

Multi-agent coalition formation theory was used to analyze the task allocation of multi-aircraft against multi-target in net warfare combat. The process of cooperative air combat task allocating was just the process of coalition formatting. First, the whole striking task to all the targets was separated into a serious of subtasks, then the subtasks were decomposed to some task cells that can be executed by single platform. Second, the models of coalition reward, the ability cost and the communication spending were constructed based on the definition of the coalition characteristic function which was set as the object function of the air combat task allocation. Finally, particle swarm optimization was adopted in the form of binary matrix particle coding to generate the coalition, and the feasibility checking strategy of the particle was designed. Simulation studies were carried out to confirm the rationality and validity of the method in the cooperative air combat task allocation.