The Inclusion of a Supplementary Mission Scenario into the MultiUAV Research Tool

Abstract

The use of multiple unmanned aerial vehicles in collaborative missions is an area of increasing research for military planners. These conceptual scenarios can vary in nature, ranging from surveillance missions to directly neutralizing a known target. To facilitate research into the multiple vehicle control algorithms needed to make such collaborative missions reality, the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory developed the MultiUAV software. The objective of the work described in this paper is to modify MultiUAV to simulate a Suppression of Enemy Air Defense (SEAD) mission. This modification requires incorporation of new vehicle models, sensor models, and a high fidelity enemy Integrated Air Defense System (IADS) model. MultiUAV was integrated with the Joint Integrated Mission Model, a high fidelity IADS, in a previous effort. This paper will focus on finishing the SEAD mission requirements by incorporating unmanned combat aerial vehicle flying characteristics and a synthetic aperture radar sensor package into MultiUAV. With these enhancements, cooperative control algorithm studies with MultiUAV can be made in a more realistic SEAD scenario.