A Game Theory-Based Approach for Multiple UAVs Cooperative Target Defense

Protecting public safety and performing rescue missions by preventing uncontrolled Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) swarms from invading sensitive areas is critical. This brief investigates a system that utilizes multiple defender UAVs in tracking and intercepting multiple attacker UAVs to prevent them from entering the area. This brief defines a concise dynamics of defender and attacker UAVs, develops and analyzes strategies for both sides, and proposes a game theory-based task allocation strategy for defenders. The proposed framework aims to improve the performance of the defenders’ strategy. A series of numerical simulation experiments are conducted to verify the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed method.