Building Intelligent Pilots for Simulated Rotary Wing Aircraft

a typical scenario involving Soar-based RWA IPs. 1. Abstract There are two RWA in the scenario, just behind the The Soar/IFOR project has been developing ridge, indicated by the contour lines. The other intelligent pilot agents (henceforth IPs) for vehicles in the figure are a convoy of "enemy" participation in simulated battlefield environments. ground vehicles  tanks and anti-aircraft vehicles  While previously the project was mainly focused on controlled by ModSAF. The RWA are IPs for fixed-wing aircraft (FWA), more recently, the approximately 2.5 miles from the convoy. The IPs project has also started developing IPs for rotaryhave hidden their helicopters behind the ridge (their wing aircraft (RWA). This paper presents a approximate hiding area is specified to them in preliminary report on the development of IPs for advance). They unmask these helicopters by popping RWA. It focuses on two important issues that arise in out from behind the ridge to launch missiles at the this development. The first is a requirement for enemy vehicles, and quickly remask (hide) by reasoning about the terrain  when compared to an dipping behind the ridge to survive retaliatory FWA IP, an RWA IP needs to fly much closer to the attacks. They subsequently change their hiding terrain and in general take advantage of the terrain for position to avoid predictability when they pop out cover and concealment. The second issue relates to later. code and concept sharing between the FWA and RWA IPs. While sharing promises to cut down the development time for RWA IPs by taking advantage of our previous work for the FWA, it is not straightforward. The paper discusses the two issues in some detail and presents our initial resolutions of these issues. 2. Introduction The Soar/IFOR project has been developing intelligent pilot agents (IPs) for simulated battlefield environments (Laird et al., 1995, Rosenbloom, et al., 1994, Tambe et al., 1995). Until Summer 1994, the project was focused on building IPs for simulated fixed-wing aircraft (FWA), including air-to-air fighters and ground-attack aircraft. Since July 1994, we have begun developing IPs for simulated rotarywing aircraft (RWA), specifically, AH-64 Apache attack helicopters.