Which situations should the defender aircraft face?

The program simulates the reasoning process of an attacker aircraft in a dogfight. This reasoning process is based on decision trees. This decision trees are valid only in very precise situations. The following constraints can characterize these situations:

• Scenario constraints: the program only computes decisions for the attacker aircraft. Reversal situation are not supported. It is assumed that the defender performs very few maneuvers: only a turn maneuver is taken into account.
• Geometry constraints: the program provides coherent outputs as long as these geometry constraints are satisfied.
• First of all, the attacker has to be in the defender’s turn circle. It is the first area around the defender an attacker should enter before getting into defender’s six.
• The attacker should be behind the enemy (i.e. aspect angle within [-90,90] ). The shadowed area in the diagrams below shows what is meant by “behind”.
• The attacker should fly the same direction as him. It means that, when the attacker is on the defender left side corner, it should point right, when it is on the defender right side corner, it should point left. The third figure shows a situation where the attacker does not point the right direction.

The decision trees have not been designed to computing decision beyond these limits. It could even provide incoherent outputs.

The first two figures below illustrate situations the prototype can deal with, whereas the third figure shows a forbidden situation (the attacker does not fly the right direction)

Sample 1

Sample2

Sample 3