Journal of Systems Engineering and Electronics ›› 2023, Vol. 34 ›› Issue (5): 1235-1251.doi: 10.23919/JSEE.2023.000062

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UCAV situation assessment method based on C-LSHADE-Means and SAE-LVQ

Lei XIE1(), Shangqin TANG1(), Zhenglei WEI2,*(), Yongbo XUAN3(), Xiaofei WANG3()   

  1. 1 Institute of Aeronautics Engineering, Air Force Engineering University, Xi’an 710038, China
    2 China Aerodynamics Research & Development Center, Mianyang 621000, China
    3 Blue Sky Innovation Center for Frontier Science, Beijing 100000, China
  • Received:2021-02-24 Online:2023-10-18 Published:2023-10-30
  • Contact: Zhenglei WEI E-mail:310370487@qq.com;630909448@qq.com;zhenglei_wei@126.com;398791736@qq.com;wxf825421673@163.com
  • About author:
    XIE Lei was born in 1997. He received his bachelor degree in arms engineering and master degree in armament science and technology from Air Force Engineering University, Xi’an, China. He is currently pursuing his doctor degree in Air Force Engineering University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China. His research interests include air combat, intelligent optimization algorithm, maneuvering decision, and situation assessment. E-mail: 310370487@qq.com

    TANG Shangqin was born in 1984. He received his bachelor and Ph.D. degrees in arms engineering from Air Force Engineering University in 2007 and 2013, respectively. His research interests include air combat maneuver decision, intention recognition, and situation assessment.E-mail: 630909448@qq.com

    WEI Zhenglei was born in 1991. He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in armament science and technology from Air Force Engineering University. He is an engineer in China Aerodynamics Research & Development Center. His research interests include maneuvering prediction and maneuvering decision. E-mail: zhenglei_wei@126.com

    XUAN Yongbo was born in 1984. He received his Ph.D. degree from Air Force Engineering University in 2012. He is an engineer in Beijing Blue Sky Innovation Center for Frontier Science. His research interest is general technology. E-mail: 398791736@qq.com

    WANG Xiaofei was born in 1990. He received his Ph.D. degree of weapon science and technology from Air Force Engineering University in 2020. He is an engineer in Beijing Blue Sky Innovation Center for Frontier Science. His research interests are evolutionary algorithms and UCAV air combat decision. E-mail: wxf825421673@163.com
  • Supported by:
    This work was supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Shaanxi Province (2020JQ-481;2021JM-224), and the Aeronautical Science Foundation of China (201951096002).

Abstract:

The unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV) is a research hot issue in the world, and the situation assessment is an important part of it. To overcome shortcomings of the existing situation assessment methods, such as low accuracy and strong dependence on prior knowledge, a data-driven situation assessment method is proposed. The clustering and classification are combined, the former is used to mine situational knowledge, and the latter is used to realize rapid assessment. Angle evaluation factor and distance evaluation factor are proposed to transform multi-dimensional air combat information into two-dimensional features. A convolution success-history based adaptive differential evolution with linear population size reduction-means (C-LSHADE-Means) algorithm is proposed. The convolutional pooling layer is used to compress the size of data and preserve the distribution characteristics. The LSHADE algorithm is used to initialize the center of the mean clustering, which overcomes the defect of initialization sensitivity. Comparing experiment with the seven clustering algorithms is done on the UCI data set, through four clustering indexes, and it proves that the method proposed in this paper has better clustering performance. A situation assessment model based on stacked autoencoder and learning vector quantization (SAE-LVQ) network is constructed, and it uses SAE to reconstruct air combat data features, and uses the self-competition layer of the LVQ to achieve efficient classification. Compared with the five kinds of assessments models, the SAE-LVQ model has the highest accuracy. Finally, three kinds of confrontation processes from air combat maneuvering instrumentation (ACMI) are selected, and the model in this paper is used for situation assessment. The assessment results are in line with the actual situation.

Key words: unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV), situation assessment, clustering, K-means, stacked autoencoder, learning vector quantization