Research on Modeling Method of UCAV Swarm Architecture Based on Capability

With the advantages of high flexibility and wide adaptability, the unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV) swarm has plenty of applications in air combat. Architecture definition is the top-level planning of UCAV swarm application. It is comprehensive consideration according to the requirements of mission, task and agent characteristics, therefore a disciplined method is required to guide architecture modeling. In this study, an architecture modeling method based on capability is proposed, which is used to address the problem of fuzzy UCAV swarm application. This method mainly provides a three-layer framework for dealing with the transmission and decomposition of capability, which integrate bottom-up and top-down approaches. The process of capability transmission is elaborated in detail with the theory of requirement engineering. Another important aspect of this method is the reference ontology of operational architecture, which standardizes the architecture reference and supports the capability-matching mechanism. This method was applied to verify an air anti-surface warfare operation case, and the modeling and simulation results show that the proposed method is very effective for addressing the fuzzy UCAV swarm application problem.