Two-aircraft formation flight simulation system based on four-tiered architecture

Aircraft is a typical nonlinear dynamic system, and studying two-aircraft formation flight is of great significance in nonlinear dynamics. In this paper, we propose a novel four-tiered architecture-based two-aircraft formation flight method. By mission tier, decision tier, control tier and execution tier, we construct an organic and divide-and-conquer two-aircraft formation flight simulation system. We elaborate the simulation principle and implementing method of two-aircraft formation flight based on four-tiered architecture. Experimental results show that this two-aircraft formation flight simulation method is better than the existing methods in formation keeping accuracy.