In within-visual-range (WVR) air combat, basic fighter maneuvers (BFMs) are widely used. A BFM decision support scheme has been proposed to aid human pilots in the complex air combat engagement. Recent artificial intelligence advances provide novel opportunities for the development of BFM decision support research. This paper commences by establishing an air-combat-engagement database. Key features that pilots rely on for BFM decision-making in WVR air combat are analyzed, which identifies the input and output data essential for the development of the BFM decision support scheme. A Long Short-Term-Memory (LSTM)-based BFM decision support scheme is then proposed to map input (i.e., combat situations) to output (i.e., BFM decision). Additionally, Shapley-Additive-Explanations-based explainability analysis is also employed to assess the importance of each input feature in the LSTM blocks, and to explain the contribution of each feature to the BFM decision. To evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed BFM decision support scheme, WVR air-combat tests are conducted, which justify the effectiveness of the proposed scheme.


    Access

    Check access

    Check availability in my library

    Order at Subito €


    Export, share and cite



    Title :

    Explainable Basic-Fighter-Maneuver Decision Support Scheme for Piloting Within-Visual-Range Air Combat


    Contributors:
    Wang, Can (author) / Tu, Jingqi (author) / Yang, Xizhong (author) / Yao, Jun (author) / Xue, Tao (author) / Ma, Jinyi (author) / Zhang, Yiming (author) / Ai, Jianliang (author) / Dong, Yiqun (author)

    Published in:

    Publication date :

    2024-04-11


    Size :

    15 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




    Maneuver Decision of Cooperative Air Combat within Visual Range Based on MATD3

    Zhang Dong, Tang Junlin, Xiong Wei, Ren Zhi, Yang Shuheng | DOAJ | 2023

    Free access

    Basic Fighter Maneuver Visualization Trainer

    T. Russo / V. G. Bonilla / R. A. Thurman | NTIS | 1997




    Research on MAV-UAV cooperative air combat maneuver decision

    LIU Bo / WEI Xiaolong / QU Hong et al. | DOAJ | 2023

    Free access