Configuration control and evolutionary mechanism of aircraft swarm

The adaptive ability emerging based on the sympathetic network is a basic feature of aircraft swarm, and the critical points lie in the configuration control and evolutionary mechanism. According to the basic principles and requirements of configuration control and evolution, a three-level hybrid architecture with the mission managing level, decision making level and aircraft control level was proposed, and an event-triggerred & rules-driven evolutionary mechanism was also designed. In order to achieve the mission-oriented configuration design goal of “adaptive ability emerging”, complex mission was decomposed into a sequence of atom tasks based on ability requirements. The cooperative anti-stealth, passive location and air-to-air attack were given as examples to show the mapping relationships between ability and configuration. The results indicate that different configurations can “emerge” different types and levels of ability. The configuration approaching and keeping control protocol was designed based on the consensus theory of multi-agent system. Finally, theoretical results were verified by simulations and experiments with a demonstration system.