Webinar
‘Optimizing Firing Position Usage for Survivability and Effectiveness in Artillery Shoot-and-Scoot Tactics’
ON-DEMAND WEBINAR:
At GVSETS 2025 our technical paper “Optimizing Firing Position Usage for Survivability and Effectiveness in Artillery Shoot-and-Scoot Tactics” was honoured with the Best Paper Award in the Autonomy, Artificial Intelligence & Robotics track.
Missed the live talk at GVSETS? Watch the full presentation in our on-demand webinar.
Presented by Thomas Jonsson Damgaard, Developer at Carmenta and Co-author of the paper together with Dr. Mikael Rittri.
Webinar highlights:
- In shoot-and-scoot tactics, a common rule is that artillery units should not reuse firing positions; a more cautious rule is that they should not even pass near an old firing position when relocating.
- Learn how we introduced this cautious rule to define a new variant of the traveling salesman problem: maximizing the number of firing positions while minimizing travel time under strict movement constraints.
- Explore our use of greedy and randomised heuristic algorithms and graph theory to optimize movement and performance.
- Discover how our results show that repeated randomized runs yield good solutions quickly, and that problem reduction can further boost performance.