Air Combat Maneuver Guidance System for UCAV using Neutral-Advantage-Disadvantage- Mutual Disadvantage Approach

This study aims to implement a threat assessment and decision making system to UCAV’s rigid body model guidance system and evaluate the performance of the assigned system which is established in the form of Neutral-AdvantageDisadvantage-Mutual Disadvantage (NADM) method. First, a transformation process is conducted in order to gain combat parameters from the currently known UCAV state variables which were obtained from a state-space modeled UCAV. The obtained combat parameters are then presented to the NADM threat assessment program as inputs. After the assessment process is carried out, a decision making algorithm based on a predictive control scheme determines the best set of command inputs for the UCAV in order to achieve the desired combat situation through executed maneuvers. Comparison between the results of simulations and a set of provided reference conditions is later conducted. Finally, discussions regarding these results are presented.