The Determination Method of Battlefield Monitoring Interval Period Based on the Complicatedness of Situation Changes

Commanders are aware of the battlefield situation (BS) by monitoring the battlefield periodically. When the monitoring interval period is too short, there will be a huge cognitive load, which seriously affects commanders’ situation awareness (SA). When the monitoring interval period is too long, there will be omission of important information, which also affects commanders’ SA. Therefore, it is necessary to set the reasonable interval period of monitoring battlefield. In this paper, BS signal is defined to represent BS changes, according to the characteristics of BS changes. Then Fourier transform (FT) is used to analyze frequency characteristics of BS signal in order to describe the complicatedness of BS changes. The discriminant of reasonable monitoring interval period (DRMIP) is derived, according to the commanders’ requirements accuracy of BS. When the complicatedness of BS changes cannot be obtained previously, the highest frequency iteration algorithm (HFIA) is proposed to obtain the best monitoring interval period according to iterative BS signal. In the case of setting the threshold of difference, the validity of the proposed method was verified by simulation calculation method.