Expert method assessments of compliance of the tactical and technical characteristics of unmanned aviation complexes with their technical requirements

Abstract

An expert method for evaluating the compliance of the tactical and technical characteristics of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with the technical requirements for this type of UAV, which are in force in the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, and the formation of proposals for the admission to operation of an UAV on the basis of the received assessment is proposed.

The advantage of the expert method is the involvement of experts in the subject area who are highly qualified and have practical experience in the combat use of this type of UAV and can answer the question of which tactical and technical characteristics are more priority and which are less and form the appropriate rating.

In order to obtain a representative sample of expert evaluations, only the evaluations of operators with a total flight time of at least 400 (four hundred) hours on this type of UAV were left.

The experts' evaluations were obtained according to two levels of decomposition, at the first level, the assessment of the priority of UAV functions, at the second level, the assessment of each individual indicator in the middle of the function.

Determination of weighting coefficients of indicators based on an expert survey of operators impact drones of the rotor type with the FPV system.

The program is described in the Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) programming language, which implements the calculation algorithm using the expert method, examples of calculations and the formation of proposals are given, and further directions for program modernization are determined.

The proposed logic of the program during formation proposals regarding the admission of UAV to operation depending on the overall assessment in percentages for three variants of issuing a message to the user: “it is advisable not to grant admission to operation”, “it is advisable to improve the performance characteristics to a level of at least 75%”, “it is advisable to grant admission to operation”. An example of the software code for the implementation of the calculation and the algorithm for issuing a text message regarding the formation of a proposal for admission to the operation of UAV is given.

It is recommended to use this program as a tool to speed up the process of preparing substantiated proposals on the expediency or impracticality of admitting UAV to operation in Armed Forces of Ukraine.