This paper investigates the problem of how to form coalitions in teams of heterogeneous vehicles. In particular, a coordination strategy is designed for unmanned vehicles to autonomously carry out the suppression of enemy air defenses (SEAD) mission, which would benefit from a heterogeneous network of unmanned vehicles to search and destroy threats in an unexplored area. Inspiration for this work is drawn from natural systems, and we consider the alliance-forming behavior of bottlenose dolphins as a guiding example. A two-phased approach is taken to develop the bioinspired strategy. First, in the context of multi-agent systems, a mathematical model is produced that expressively captures the alliance-forming behavior. Next, this model is tailored to the suppression of enemy air defenses mission: the target application. Advantages of using this bioinspired approach are discussed and simulations are provided to demonstrate its operation.


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    Title :

    Multilevel Coalition Formation Strategy for Suppression of Enemy Air Defenses Missions


    Contributors:
    Haque, M. (author) / Egerstedt, M. (author) / Rahmani, A. (author)

    Published in:

    Publication date :

    2013-06-01




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English