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  • Review
  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,536 Views
15 Pages

Review of the Research Progress in Combat Simulation Software

  • Fengshun Lu,
  • Xingzhi Hu,
  • Bendong Zhao,
  • Xiong Jiang,
  • Duoneng Liu,
  • Jianqi Lai and
  • Zhiren Wang

30 April 2023

To address the new functional requirements brought by the introduction of new weapons and new combat modes, a comprehensive survey of the research progress in the area of combat simulation software is performed from the perspective of software engine...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,710 Views
18 Pages

27 October 2022

With the improvement of UAV performance and intelligence in recent years, it is particularly important for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to improve the ability of autonomous air combat. Aiming to solve the problem of how to improve the autonomous a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,844 Views
27 Pages

Simulation and Validation of an 8 × 8 Scaled Electric Combat Vehicle

  • Junwoo Kim,
  • Moustafa El-Gindy and
  • Zeinab El-Sayegh

19 February 2024

In this research, an 8 × 8 scaled electric combat vehicle (SECV) is built. The scaled vehicle is evaluated in both experimental and simulated methods to analyze its performance. The scaled vehicle is developed to apply the Ackermann condition b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
634 Views
24 Pages

2 November 2025

This study presents a DSDEVS-based method to accelerate simulation execution for AI training in USV (Unmanned Surface vehicle) naval combat scenarios. The proposed approach introduces an event filtering technique that selectively suppresses low-impor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,267 Views
24 Pages

This paper combines matrix game theory with negotiating theory and uses U-solution to study the framework of the consulting air combat of UAV cluster. The processes to determine the optimal strategy in this paper follow three points: first, the UAV c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,360 Views
16 Pages

4 September 2019

To train skilled unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV) operators, it is important to establish a real-time training environment where an enemy appropriately responds to the action performed by a trainee. This can be addressed by constructing the infe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,696 Views
24 Pages

17 February 2024

Antimicrobial resistance poses a severe threat, particularly in developing countries where the ready availability of drugs and increased consumption lead to improper antibiotic usage, thereby causing a surge in resistance levels compared to developed...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,286 Views
14 Pages

2 June 2022

Stubble burning in India continues despite the severe consequences on the environment and the massive health crisis in the country. Farmers resort to such practices as a cheap and hasty solution post-harvest, which helps them prepare for their next c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,859 Views
11 Pages

22 February 2016

In agent based models, the agents are usually platforms (individual soldiers, tanks, helicopters, etc.), not military units. In the Sandis software, the agents can be platoon size units. As there are about 30 soldiers in a platoon, there is a need fo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
20,165 Views
24 Pages

This paper proposes a new theory of non-state actors who engage in irregular warfare to seize territory and govern openly, called emerging-state actors. Emerging-state actors arise in periods of irregular conflict, such as the so-called Islamic State...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
6,057 Views
19 Pages

28 September 2022

To solve the problems of autonomous decision making and the cooperative operation of multiple unmanned combat aerial vehicles (UCAVs) in beyond-visual-range air combat, this paper proposes an air combat decision-making method that is based on a multi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,628 Views
19 Pages

The Model of Optimal Allocation of Maritime Oil Spill Combat Ships

  • Kinga Łazuga,
  • Lucjan Gucma and
  • Marko Perkovic

4 July 2018

The paper describes a two-stage method for optimizing the location of marine oil spill combat forces and assessing the costs related to this action at the sea. An optimization problem relates to positioning the oil pollution combat ships in ports in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,830 Views
14 Pages

12 January 2024

To adapt to the development trend of intelligent air combat, it is necessary to research the autonomous generation of maneuvering decisions for unmanned combat aerial vehicles (UCAV). This paper presents a maneuver decision-making method for UCAV bas...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,732 Views
20 Pages

14 November 2022

With the rapid development of intelligent unmanned technology, unmanned combat swarms are faced with a highly aggressive, highly uncertain, and highly dynamic battlefield environment, and the operation mode of unmanned combat has gradually shifted fr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,549 Views
22 Pages

18 January 2024

With the increasing complexity and frequency of interactions among a large number of heterogeneous nodes within a combat system of systems (SoS), evaluating the capability of the SoS to withstand external attacks and interferences has become an incre...

  • Article
  • Open Access
88 Citations
27,390 Views
13 Pages

Caffeine Reduces Reaction Time and Improves Performance in Simulated-Contest of Taekwondo

  • Victor G. F. Santos,
  • Vander R. F. Santos,
  • Leandro J. C. Felippe,
  • Jose W. Almeida Jr.,
  • Rômulo Bertuzzi,
  • Maria A. P. D. M. Kiss and
  • Adriano E. Lima-Silva

10 February 2014

The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of caffeine on reaction time during a specific taekwondo task and athletic performance during a simulated taekwondo contest. Ten taekwondo athletes ingested either 5 mg·kg−1 body mass caffeine or p...

  • Review
  • Open Access
34 Citations
14,769 Views
12 Pages

17 February 2023

This narrative review focuses on the studies that estimate the energy systems’ contributions during match simulations of striking (boxing, karate, and taekwondo), grappling (judo), and weapon-based (fencing) Olympic combat sports. The purpose i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,096 Views
44 Pages

26 March 2025

In recent years, autonomous maneuver decision-making has emerged as a key technology in autonomous air combat confrontation, garnering widespread attention. A method combining the modified marine predator algorithm (MMPA) and fuzzy inference is propo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
5,969 Views
23 Pages

28 July 2020

With the development of unmanned combat air vehicles (UCAVs) and artificial intelligence (AI), within visual range (WVR) air combat confrontations utilizing intelligent UCAVs are expected to be widely used in future air combats. As controlling highly...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,533 Views
19 Pages

19 August 2022

Autonomous maneuver decision by an unmanned combat air vehicle (UCAV) is a critical part of air combat that requires both flight safety and tactical maneuvering. In this paper, an unmanned combat air vehicle air combat maneuver decision method based...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,849 Views
23 Pages

30 August 2022

With recent advances in airborne weapons, air combat tends to occur in the form of beyond-visual-range (BVR) combat and multi-aircraft cooperation. Target assignment is critical in multi-aircraft BVR air combat decision-making. Most previous research...

  • Article
  • Open Access
261 Views
39 Pages

In this paper, an explainable decision-making and guidance integration method is developed based on dynamic Bayesian network and the optimized control method. The proposed method can be applied for the autonomous decision-making and guidance in the g...

  • Article
  • Open Access
94 Citations
7,842 Views
24 Pages

With the development of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and artificial intelligence (AI) technology, Intelligent UAV will be widely used in future autonomous aerial combat. Previous researches on autonomous aerial combat within visual range (WVR) have...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,443 Views
18 Pages

20 April 2021

Based on the data in real combat games, the combat System-of-Systems is usually composed of a large number of armed equipment platforms (or systems) and a reasonable communication network to connect mutually independent weapons and equipment platform...

  • Abstract
  • Open Access
1,524 Views
1 Page

The Effect of a Combat Swimming Training Program on 1000-m Combat Swimming and Shooting Performance

  • Ioannis Kostoulas,
  • Stylianos Kounalakis,
  • Argyris Toubekis,
  • Anastasios Karagiannis,
  • Antonios Kaniadakis,
  • Dimitrios Mavraganis,
  • Konstantina Karatrantou and
  • Vassilis Gerodimos

AIM: To investigate the effect of a combat swimming training program (CSTP), with and without equipment, on 1000-m combat swimming and shooting performance. MATERIAL & METHOD: 45 male army officer cadets volunteered to participate in the study an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,743 Views
21 Pages

The networked combat system-of-system (CSOS) is the trend of combat development with the innovation of technology. To achieve the combat effectiveness, studying the ability of CSOS to cope with external interference is of great importance. Here we re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,380 Views
38 Pages

27 November 2023

Air combat situation assessment is the basis of target assignment and maneuver decisions. The current air combat situation assessment models, whether nonparametric or parametric, ignore the continuity and timing of situation changes, making the situa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,734 Views
12 Pages

Psychophysiological Responses in Soldiers during Close Combat: Implications for Occupational Health and Fitness in Tactical Populations

  • Maria Stergiou,
  • José Juan Robles-Pérez,
  • Jorge Rey-Mota,
  • José Francisco Tornero-Aguilera and
  • Vicente Javier Clemente-Suárez

29 December 2023

This study explores the psychophysiological responses and subjective exertion experiences of soldiers in simulated hand-to-hand combat, aligning these findings with established physiological benchmarks. Active military personnel were monitored for he...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
703 Views
25 Pages

Two-Stage Uncertain UAV Combat Mission Assignment Problem Based on Uncertainty Theory

  • Haitao Zhong,
  • Rennong Yang,
  • Aoyu Zheng,
  • Mingfa Zheng and
  • Yu Mei

Based on uncertainty theory, this paper studies the problem of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) combat mission assignment under an uncertain environment. First, considering both the target value, which is the combat mission benefit gained from attacking...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,212 Views
13 Pages

14 November 2022

Autonomous air combat of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is a typical and difficult problem that must be studied in the field of military intelligence. The UAVs are required to work together to accomplish different tasks in the air combat. In this no...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,765 Views
30 Pages

31 January 2025

One-to-one within-visual-range air combat of unmanned combat aerial vehicles (UCAVs) requires fast, continuous, and accurate decision-making to achieve air combat victory. In order to solve the current problems of insufficient real-time performance o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,663 Views
28 Pages

27 February 2025

Targeting the autonomous decision-making problem of unmanned combat aerial vehicles (UCAVs) in a two-versus-one (2v1) within-visual-range (WVR) air combat scenario, this paper proposes a maneuver decision-making method based on tactical coordination....

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,342 Views
25 Pages

18 March 2025

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarm dynamic combat poses significant challenges due to its complexity and dynamism. This study introduces a novel approach that addresses these challenges through the development of a swarm maneuver decision method bas...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
3,533 Views
18 Pages

Maneuver Decision-Making for Autonomous Air Combat Based on FRE-PPO

  • Hongpeng Zhang,
  • Yujie Wei,
  • Huan Zhou and
  • Changqiang Huang

11 October 2022

Maneuver decision-making is the core of autonomous air combat, and reinforcement learning is a potential and ideal approach for addressing decision-making problems. However, when reinforcement learning is used for maneuver decision-making for autonom...

  • Article
  • Open Access
86 Citations
8,693 Views
22 Pages

Autonomous maneuver decision making is the core of intelligent warfare, which has become the main research direction to enable unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to independently generate control commands and complete air combat tasks according to envir...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,506 Views
15 Pages

27 May 2024

Medieval combat sport is a form of mixed martial art in which combatants engage in fighting using offensive and defensive equipment while dressed in full armor. The sport is considered extremely taxing, making it nearly impossible to maintain the sam...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,571 Views
21 Pages

15 August 2020

With its superior performance, the unmanned combat air vehicle (UCAV) will gradually become an important combat force in the future beyond-visual-range (BVR) air combat. For the problem of UCAV using the BVR air-to-air missile (AAM) to intercept the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,663 Views
14 Pages

14 March 2024

In this paper, we present an effective method for analyzing patterns in the Russia–Ukraine war based on the Lanchester model. Due to the limited availability of information on combat powers of engaging forces, we utilize the loss of armored equ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,693 Views
18 Pages

7 August 2024

Multiple unmanned aerial vehicle (multi-UAV) confrontation is becoming an increasingly important combat mode in intelligent air combat. The confrontation highly relies on the intelligent collaboration and real-time decision-making of the UAVs. Thus,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
3,548 Views
25 Pages

17 April 2023

Battlefield information is generally incomplete, uncertain, or deceptive. To realize enemy intention recognition in an uncertain and incomplete air combat information environment, a novel intention recognition method is proposed. After repairing the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,064 Views
13 Pages

3 February 2022

The multi-UAV system has stronger robustness and better stability in combat. Therefore, the collaborative penetration of UAVs has been extensively studied in recent years. Compared with general static combat scenes, the dynamic tracking and intercept...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,272 Views
26 Pages

21 May 2025

This study proposes an unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV)-oriented hierarchical reinforcement learning framework to address the temporal abstraction challenge in autonomous within-visual-range air combat (WVRAC) for UCAVs. The incorporation of max...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,866 Views
17 Pages

2 December 2022

As acoustic decoys can simulate the scale of the target through orderly control of the echo delay, simulated acoustic decoys have scale characteristics similar to those of the scaled target. Consequently, simulated acoustic decoys make it difficult f...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
35 Citations
14,498 Views
37 Pages

21 July 2022

Although the effects of caffeine supplementation on combat sports performance have been extensively investigated, there is currently no consensus regarding its ergogenic benefits.This systematic review with meta-analysis aimed to summarize the studie...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
9,970 Views
12 Pages

13 January 2011

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) can be implemented as one of sensor systems in Network Centric Warfare (NCW). Mobility support and energy efficiency are key concerns for this application, due to multiple mobile users and stimuli in real combat field....

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,642 Views
30 Pages

25 February 2022

The article is devoted to the preliminary concept of the Future Planetary Defense System (FPDS) emphasizing astroballistics. This paper is intended to support international efforts to improve the planetary security of Earth. The work covers three are...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,343 Views
24 Pages

Simulation Evaluation and Case Study Verification of Equipment System of Systems Support Effectiveness

  • Gang Ding,
  • Lijie Cui,
  • Feng Zhang,
  • Chao Shi,
  • Xinhe Wang and
  • Xiang Tai

26 January 2025

As the scale of missions continues to expand, equipment support has emerged as a critical component of military combat effectiveness. Consequently, the supportability of a system of systems (SOS) for equipment has become as essential quality requirem...

  • Article
  • Open Access
66 Citations
4,836 Views
19 Pages

28 February 2020

To improve the effectiveness of air combat decision-making systems, target intention has been extensively studied. In general, aerial target intention is composed of attack, surveillance, penetration, feint, defense, reconnaissance, cover and electro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,197 Views
21 Pages

Investigation of Optimization of Combustion Processes in the Engine of Combat Vehicles by Use of Disk Structure

  • Igor Korobiichuk,
  • Viktorij Mel’nick,
  • Volodimir Karachun and
  • Vladyslav Shybetskyi

27 October 2021

This work analyzes the possibility of a provision of force-majeure mode of the combat vehicles with the aid of disk construction installed in the baffler, the base of the operation of which is the method of residual cyclical quadratic chain code of c...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,062 Views
25 Pages

2 March 2022

The shipborne helicopter is an essential maritime combat force of the modern navy. However, as the most advanced shipborne helicopter landing assistance system, the ASIST still suffers from the significant disadvantage of the uncontrollable driving s...

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