Flying Together: Modelling Air Mission Teams

  • Authors:

  • Gil Tidhar;Clinton Heinze;Mario Selvestrel

  • Affiliations:

  • Department of Computer Science, The University of Melbourne, Parkville VIC 3052, Australia. E-mail: gil@cs.mu.oz.au;Air Operations Division, DSTO, 506 Lorimer Street, Fishermens Bend VIC 3207, Australia.;Air Operations Division, DSTO, 506 Lorimer Street, Fishermens Bend VIC 3207, Australia.

  • Venue:
  • Applied Intelligence
  • Year:
  • 1998

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Abstract

The problem of modelling air missions is part of a larger problem—simulating possible war-like scenarios in the air, sea, and onland. In modelling such military systems one is required to model the behaviour of various actors and the resources that are available to them. One aspect of this problem is the modelling of a group of actors as a team and then modelling the coordinated behaviour of such a team to achieve a joint goal.In the domain of air mission modelling the actors are pilots who controlaircraft and their behaviour is referred to as tactics. In this paper wepresent the approach we adopted in modelling teams and team tactics as partof the development of the Smart Whole AiR Mission Model (SWARMM) for theAir Operations Division of the Australian Defence Science and TechnologyOrganization. In our approach teams are composed of sub-teams and adoptorganizational structures. Such structures define the responsibilities ofthe sub-teams towards the mission to be achieved as well as towards thecontrol and coordination of the sub-teams. We also describe howcommunication is used when adopting a variety of control and coordinationstrategies and how one could reason about the choice of organizationalstructures for a given mission and situation.