A Hybrid Neural Network Method for UAV Attack Route Integrated Planning

This paper proposes a hybrid neural network method to solve the UAV attack route planning problem considering multiple factors. In this method, the planning procedure is decomposed by two planners: penetration planner and attack planner. The attack planner determines a candidate solution set, which adopts Guassian Radial Basis Function Neural Networks (RBFNN) to give a quick performance evaluation to find the optimal candidate solutions. The penetration planner adopts an alterative Hopfield Neural Network (NN) to refine the candidates in a fast speed, The combined effort of the two neural networks efficiently relaxes the coupling in the planning procedure and is able to generate a near-optimal solution within low computation time. The algorithms are simple and can easily be accelerated by parallelization techniques. Detailed experiments and results are reported and analyzed.