Optimal deployment of swarm positions in cooperative interception of multiple UAV swarms

In order to prevent the attacker from breaking through the blockade of the interception, deploying multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) swarms on the interception line is a new combat style. To solve the optimal deployment of swarm positions in the cooperative interception, an optimal deployment optimization model is presented by minimizing the penetration zones' area and the analytical expression of the optimal deployment positions is deduced. Firstly, from the view of the attackers breaking through the interception line, the situations of vertical penetration and oblique penetration are analyzed respectively, and the mathematical models of penetration zones are obtained under the condition of a single UAV swarm and multiple UAV swarms. Secondly, based on the optimization goal of minimizing the penetration area, the optimal deployment optimization model for swarm positions is proposed, and the analytical solution of the optimal deployment is solved by using the convex programming theory. Finally, the proposed optimal deployment is compared with the uniform deployment and random deployment to verify the validity of the theoretical analysis.