Ground support resources allocation modeling and optimizing for multiple types of military aircraft

Abstract

The co-operation of multiple types of military aircraft has become one of the basic features in air combats. In order to improve comprehensive support capability, how to optimize the resources distribution of ground support equipment is an important content of the air force stations modernization construction. The uneconomic and unreasonable reasons of allocation approach are analyzed based on the actual situation of allocating ground support resources for multiple types of military aircraft. The conceptual model and the requirement model of the ground support processes are given according to the different needs of support requirement for different types of military aircraft, this makes preparation for simulation and optimization models. The support resources strategies are developed in the simulation model, especially when there are two or more types of support activities arranged to be performed in any order with Arena software. The ground support resources allocation is optimized using intelligence-optimized algorithms in the optimizing models. The optimization results show that simulation model and optimum approach can improve the efficiency of ground support activities of multiple types of military aircraft and can increase the effectiveness of ground support resources scheduling in the support processes.