A Supervisory Control Model of the AAA Crew

A model has been developed to simulate the continuous control performance and discrete decision-making activities performed by a AAA crew during an engagement. The model consists of three basic sub-models: a system model of the threat aircraft and AAA system hardware; a commander model which simulates the primary situation assessment and decision-making activities of the commander; and a gunner model which simulates the prilmary monitoring and continuous control activity of the gunner. Preliminary simulation of the crew/system model has been completed, over a number of scenarios and engagement sequences. A rich variety of metrics are available from the model (e.g., continuous tracking performance, intercrew message time-lines, mode decision activity, etc.) and it is anticipated that future work will concentrate on developing appropriate experimental scenarios for verifying specific predictions of the model.