UAV Swarm Cooperative Situation Awareness Theory Model Construction and Scenario Analysis

Abstract

The Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) swarm collaborative operations is one of the disruptive technologies in future information warfare. Considering the characteristics of UAV swarm collaborative operation, we propose two UAV swarm cooperative situation awareness (SA) theory models based on the classical ones and the composition of UAV swarm. Firstly, the improved Endsley three-level SA model is proposed, in which the traditional mental model is changed into human machine intelligent model on the individual level. Then the homogeneous swarm and heterogeneous swarm cooperative SA model are separately built based on the improved team SA model and Distributed SA (DSA) model. Meanwhile, a comparison between the multi-UAV and UAV swarm is carried. Finally, a scenario analysis of swarm cooperative SA in combat situation is presented.