Simultaneous attack of a stationary target using multiple missiles: a consensus-based approach

Jialing Zhou, Jianying Yang*, Zhongkui Li

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

This paper considers the simultaneous attack problem of multiple missiles against a stationary target. Built upon the classic proportional navigation structure, we propose a consensus-based approach to design the cooperative guidance law. Specifically, we present time-varying navigation ratios for the missiles, which exchange the time-to-go estimates between neighboring missiles via a communication network. For the cases where the communication topology is undirected or in the leader–follower structure with a missile acting as the leader whose navigation ratio cannot be tuned, we show that the proposed cooperative guidance law can solve the simultaneous attack problem. The effectiveness of the theoretical results is finally illustrated by numerical simulations.

Original languageEnglish
Article number070205
JournalScience China Information Sciences
Volume60
Issue number7
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jul 2017
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • consensus problem
  • cooperative control
  • distributed control
  • guidance law design
  • simultaneous attack

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Zhou, J., Yang, J., & Li, Z. (2017). Simultaneous attack of a stationary target using multiple missiles: a consensus-based approach. Science China Information Sciences, 60(7), Article 070205. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11432-016-9089-7