Cooperative task assignment of multiple UCAVs based on MAS and CNP

Aiming at the task assignment problem of unmanned combat aerial vehicle (abbreviated as UCAV), we consider single UCAV as an agent here, then UCAV formation compose multi-agent system (abbreviated as MAS) by using the theory of complex adaptive system. We established the target function model and correlative restriction model of task assignment for MAS. Based on the distributed characteristic of task assignment, we introduce the idea of market auction mechanism from contract net protocol (abbreviated as CNP) and use this method to build the cooperative task assignment model. Simulations prove that the model based on MAS and CNP we built is correct. And also simulation results indicate that contract net protocol can solve the problem of task assignment effectively and can achieve the global optimization.