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Optimal motion planning in rapid‐fire combat situations with attacker uncertainty

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  • Claire Walton
  • Panos Lambrianides
  • Isaac Kaminer
  • Johannes Royset
  • Qi Gong

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This article provides a modeling framework for quantifying cost and optimizing motion plans in combat situations with rapid weapon fire, multiple agents, and attacker uncertainty characterized by uncertain parameters. Recent developments in numerical optimal control enable the efficient computation of numerical solutions for optimization problems with multiple agents, nonlinear dynamics, and a broad class of objectives. This facilitates the application of more realistic, equipment‐based combat models, which track both more realistic models, which track both agent motion and dynamic equipment capabilities. We present such a framework, along with a described algorithm for finding numerical solutions, and a numerical example.

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  • Claire Walton & Panos Lambrianides & Isaac Kaminer & Johannes Royset & Qi Gong, 2018. "Optimal motion planning in rapid‐fire combat situations with attacker uncertainty," Naval Research Logistics (NRL), John Wiley & Sons, vol. 65(2), pages 101-119, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:navres:v:65:y:2018:i:2:p:101-119
    DOI: 10.1002/nav.21790
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