Military route planning in battle field simulations for a multi-agent system

Issue title: Special Supplement Issue in Section A and B: Selected Papers from the ISCA International Conference on Software Engineering and Data Engineering, 2009

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Sharma, Sharad^{; *}

Affiliations: Department of Computer Science, Bowie State University, Bowie, MD, USA

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Abstract: As the army continues to develop virtual systems for combative support missions, it needs to also develop representations of intelligent systems for its battlefield simulations. Military route planning is a challenging problem in many domains such as military mission planning, simulated war games, and battlefield simulations. The simulations have levels of complexity, abstraction, and scale. In this paper we discuss a framework for modeling intelligent systems in the context of a battlefield simulation tool. We apply this framework to model a battlefield simulation comprising of enemy outposts, minefields, barriers, and platoons of soldiers in a multi-agent system to aid commanders in decision making strategies. The results shown in this paper could be used for decision making by commanders as they can visualize bottle-neck situations such as goal swapping for platoons, route planning, and strategy planning.

Keywords: Route planning, multi-agent system, battlefield simulation, decision making

DOI: 10.3233/JCM-2010-0271

Journal: Journal of Computational Methods in Sciences and Engineering, vol. 10, no. s1, pp. S97-S105, 2010