One-vs-one Threat-Aware Weaponeering with Basic Engagement Zones

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Autores principales: Von Moll, Alexander, Milutinović, Dejan, Weintraub, Isaac, Casbeer, David W.
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Publicado: 2025
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author Von Moll, Alexander
Milutinović, Dejan
Weintraub, Isaac
Casbeer, David W.
author_facet Von Moll, Alexander
Milutinović, Dejan
Weintraub, Isaac
Casbeer, David W.
contents In this paper we address the problem of 'weaponeering', i.e., placing the weapon engagement zone (WEZ) of a vehicle on a moving target, while simultaneously avoiding the target's WEZ. A WEZ describes the lethality region of a range-limited weapon considering both the range of the weapon along with the state of the target. The weapons are assumed to have simple motion, while the vehicles carrying the weapons are modeled with Dubins dynamics. Three scenarios are investigated and are differentiated in the assumptions that can be made about the target in the process of the vehicle control design: 1) no knowledge of target control, 2) avoid unsafe positions assuming the target's optimal control, 3) full knowledge of target's optimal control. The engagement is formulated as a stochastic optimal control problem with uncertainty in the target's control modeled using a noise parameter applied to the target's control input. After discretizing the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation, Value iteration is then used to obtain an approximate solution for the optimal vehicle control and time-to-go. Simulation results support usage of the first paradigm: assume no knowledge of the target's control.
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spellingShingle One-vs-one Threat-Aware Weaponeering with Basic Engagement Zones
Von Moll, Alexander
Milutinović, Dejan
Weintraub, Isaac
Casbeer, David W.
Optimization and Control
93E20
In this paper we address the problem of 'weaponeering', i.e., placing the weapon engagement zone (WEZ) of a vehicle on a moving target, while simultaneously avoiding the target's WEZ. A WEZ describes the lethality region of a range-limited weapon considering both the range of the weapon along with the state of the target. The weapons are assumed to have simple motion, while the vehicles carrying the weapons are modeled with Dubins dynamics. Three scenarios are investigated and are differentiated in the assumptions that can be made about the target in the process of the vehicle control design: 1) no knowledge of target control, 2) avoid unsafe positions assuming the target's optimal control, 3) full knowledge of target's optimal control. The engagement is formulated as a stochastic optimal control problem with uncertainty in the target's control modeled using a noise parameter applied to the target's control input. After discretizing the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation, Value iteration is then used to obtain an approximate solution for the optimal vehicle control and time-to-go. Simulation results support usage of the first paradigm: assume no knowledge of the target's control.
title One-vs-one Threat-Aware Weaponeering with Basic Engagement Zones
topic Optimization and Control
93E20
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.09475