Recent progress on the study of multi-vehicle coordination in cooperative attack and defense: An overview

Cooperative guidance and control design of multiple vehicles plays an important role in obtaining benefits of cooperation for enhancement of combat effectiveness in modern military. A number of efficient cooperative strategies have been developed in literature within this context. This paper aims to provide a detail overview of the theoretical advances toward multi-vehicle coordination for cooperative attack and defense. With a focus on the pertinent literature published in the past two decades, this topic is divided into two categories, namely, terminal-time coordination and multiplayer pursuit-evasion. The recent progress of these two categories is systematically reviewed, and a short discussion on future research perspectives is also presented.