Wiener-Process-Type Evasive Aircraft Actions Are Indeed Optimal Against Anti-Aircraft Guns: Wiener's Data Revisited

Authors

Vladik Kreinovich, The University of Texas at El PasoFollow
Olga Kosheleva, The University of Texas at El PasoFollow

Publication Date

1-2015

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Technical Report: UTEP-CS-15-03

Abstract

In his 1940s empirical study of evasive aircraft actions, N.~Wiener, the father of cybernetics, founds out that the pilot's actions follow a Wiener-type-process. In this paper, we explain this empirical result by showing that such evasive actions are indeed optimal against the 1940s anti-aircraft guns.