Mean Field Game based Reinforcement Learning for Weapon-Target Assignment

Abstract

The Weapon-Target Assignment(WTA) problem can be formulated as an optimization problem that minimize the threat of targets.Existing methods consider the trade-off between optimality and execution time to meet the various mission objectives.We propose a multi-agent reinforcement learning algorithm for WTA based on mean field game to solve the problem in real-time with nearly optimal accuracy.Mean field game is a recent method introduced to relieve the curse of dimensionality in multi-agent learning algorithm.In addition, previous reinforcement learning models for WTA generally do not consider weapon interference, which may be critical in real world operations.Therefore, we modify the reward function to discourage the crossing of weapon trajectories.The feasibility of the proposed method was verified through simulation of a WTA problem with multiple targets in realtime and the proposed algorithm can assign the weapons to all targets without crossing trajectories of weapons.