Self-organized Cooperative Electronic Jamming by UAV Swarm Based on Contribution Priority and Cost Competition

Cooperative electronic jamming has been one of the key countermeasures in modern and even future electronic warfare in recent years' researches. In consideration of the limited effectiveness and lack of intelligence on traditional cooperative electronic jamming, the technology of self-organized cooperative electronic jamming by unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarm is researched. The intelligent cooperative jamming system is established on the basis of the mechanism of self-organized cooperation. To realize the reasonable assignment of sub-jammer members in this UAV swarm system, the jamming strategy for self-organized cooperation based on the algorithm of contribution priority and cost competition is proposed. The optimal assignment is achieved by determination of team group members within the operational sub-jammers according to the maximum contribution and minimum cost for all tasks. The simulation result shows that the proposed algorithm of contribution priority and cost competition performs well in the cooperative electronic jamming strategy, which is valuable for its application in real electronic combat environment.