Study on multi-airborne-platform sensor management based on multi-agent and market theory

Abstract

For the sensor management problem of aircraft formation multi-target attacking, a method of multi-plane multi-sensor management based on the multi-agent and market theory is proposed. Firstly, the model of multi-plane multi-target assigning is set based on the multi-agent frame. Then, the problem of target assigning and sensor management is translated into the problem of performance-price ratio optimization. The mission schedule model based on the highest performance-price ratio, the sensor-target matching model based on mission driving and the multi-platform centralized fusion tracking model are established, and the sensor target assigning problem is solved using a market auction algorithm. Simulation results prove the effectiveness of the proposed method. Compared with the sensor management method based on information theory, the proposed method is superior. Research conclusion is helpful for enhancing the attacking efficiency of the combat aircraft formation and upgrading the system attacking ability.