A genetic algorithmic fixing of attack points in a moving target

The authors previously (1994) introduced a novel technique for identifying a target in a combat space, and for setting the seeker head of a homing system to lock on to it. The central idea on which this technique has been developed is that of identifying a wanted target using a syntactic pattern recognition algorithm, and of tracking it with the help of a high-throughput cellular logic locking algorithm. This algorithm ensures fast real time updating of skeleton information about an identified target, and the seeker head is locked on to what is called an attack point. The term attack point refers to a node in a skeleton which has a maximum number of branches in a specific neighborhood. In this paper, we discuss an important issue of fixing this attack point using genetic algorithmic principles