OPTIMAL MISSION PLANNING

Abstract:An optimal path for routing an aircraft in hostile air spaces in which the risk of being detected by enemy radars along with constraints such as; aircraft speed, altitude and turn capability, mission range, mission time, fuel, etc. have been developed. Here a discrete optimization approach was used to reformulate the problem as a constrained shortest path problem (CSPP) on a grid graph and use linear integer programming to solve the CSPP.