Research on the Kill Chain of UAV Swarm Coordinated Attack on Time-sensitive Targets based on Behavior Tree

Lianming Cai; Jiaxin Gao; Bowen Jin; Yutian Wang; Xiang Li; Keyan He

doi:10.54691/jdad1735

Authors

Lianming Cai
Jiaxin Gao
Bowen Jin
Yutian Wang
Xiang Li
Keyan He

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.54691/jdad1735

Keywords:

UAVs Swarm; Time-sensitive Targets; Kill Chain; Behavior Tree.

Abstract

Fire strike is a crucial part of the current UAV-assisted landing operations and seizing control, which directly affects the final success or failure of the landing operations. In view of the current problems that a single reconnaissance/strike UAV cannot cover the entire combat area in a short time and repeated low-altitude reconnaissance is easy to be detected and attacked, this paper models the UAV behavior based on behavior tree and finite state machine, constructs a kill chain for the coordinated attack of time-sensitive targets by a double-layer UAVs of reconnaissance and reconnaissance/strike, conducts simulated attacks on random time-sensitive targets at different altitudes, and counts their survival time. The experimental results show that the reconnaissance/ strike UAVs swarm can conduct patrol, reconnaissance and coordinated strike operations at an altitude of 4km~4.75km, covering the entire combat area in a short time, shortening the kill chain closing time to within 290s, and controlling the survival time of time-sensitive targets within 345s, effectively reducing the threat of defensive weapons and improving the safety of troop landing operations, which is of great significance to the research on troop landing operations.

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