An Evolutionary Game-Theoretic Approach to Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Network Target Assignment in Three-Dimensional Scenarios

Yifan Gao, Lei Zhang (), Chuanyue Wang, Xiaoyuan Zheng and Qianling Wang
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Yifan Gao: School of Artificial Intelligence and Data Science, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin 300401, China
Lei Zhang: School of Artificial Intelligence and Data Science, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin 300401, China
Chuanyue Wang: School of Artificial Intelligence and Data Science, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin 300401, China
Xiaoyuan Zheng: School of Artificial Intelligence and Data Science, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin 300401, China
Qianling Wang: School of Artificial Intelligence and Data Science, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin 300401, China

Mathematics, 2023, vol. 11, issue 19, 1-19

Abstract: Target assignment has been a hot topic of research in the academic and industrial communities for swarms of multiple unmanned aerial vehicle (multi-UAVs). Traditional methods mainly focus on cooperative target assignment in planes, and they ignore three-dimensional scenarios for the multi-UAV network target assignment problem. This paper proposes a method for target assignment in three-dimensional scenarios based on evolutionary game theory to achieve cooperative targeting for multi-UAVs, significantly improving operational efficiency and achieving maximum utility. Firstly, we construct an evolutionary game model including game participants, a tactical strategy space, a payoff matrix, and a strategy selection probability space. Then, a multi-level information fusion algorithm is designed to evaluate the overall attack effectiveness of multi-UAVs against multiple targets. The replicator equation is leveraged to obtain the evolutionarily stable strategy (ESS) and dynamically update the optimal strategy. Finally, a typical scenario analysis and an effectiveness experiment are carried out on the RflySim platform to analyze the calculation process and verify the effectiveness of the proposed method. The results show that the proposed method can effectively provide a target assignment solution for multi-UAVs.

Keywords: multiple unmanned aerial vehicles; evolutionary game theory; target assignment; replicator equation; evidence theory (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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