The effectiveness of multiple UAVs at attacking the enemy target and defending against the attacking UAVs simultaneously gained researchers’ attention due to their cost efficiency and high mission success rates. This paper explores the UAV swarm vs. swarm offense/defense confrontation decision-making while attacking the aircraft carriers on open seas. The system is developed as a multi-agent system. Precisely, every UAV is modeled as an independent agent, which is free to make decisions based on the behavioral rules of the swarm, detection radius, and enemy location. A distributed auction-based algorithm with a limited data-sharing rate ability is formulated among swarm UAVs. A critical feature of the proposed strategy is that it empowers each UAV to make decisions in real-time during the mission in the presence of relatively limited communication hardware in terms of the update rate within the UAV communication system. The algorithm parameters are optimized to obtain an improved target allocation and elimination. Simulation results are presented to show the effectiveness of the proposed Offence-Defense UAV-based swarm Strategy.
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