A threat evaluation model for small-scale naval platforms with limited capability

摘要

Naval command and control (C2) systems guide the operators to fulfill combat actions under time-constrained circumstances. Selecting proper targets among hundreds is an important decision making process with no compensation. Hereby, threat evaluation is a critical fusion operation to accelerate this process and increase situational awareness level in military domain services. However, combat management system could suffer from small-scale platforms supplying insufficient inputs that allow only limited foresight of common tactical picture. In this paper we present an experience on deriving threat evaluation value by pruning general approaches to meet operational needs of small-scale naval platforms along decision making process. We represent a method to obtain tactical information from only kinematics of target in two dimensional space. In the meanwhile, there is no knowledge about characteristics and identification of target which are strategically very important. Threat evaluation model is composed of the extraction of threat assessment cues, threat selection step supported by Bayesian Inference and the calculation of threat assessment rating. We have analyzed performance of proposed threat evaluation model simulating a set of synthetic scenarios and observed real-life results on functioning naval platform.