Cooperative guidance for simultaneous attack: a fully distributed, adaptive, and optimal approach

ABSTRACT

This paper provides a fully distributed, adaptive, and optimal approach to address the problem of simultaneous attack against a maneuvering target with multiple missiles. For the case that the target acceleration is bounded, the relative distances and velocities between missiles and target are used as consensus variables. The communication graph and missile-target dynamics are decoupled by using neighborhood information and adaptive coupling gain coefficients. Without knowing the global information, the simultaneous hitting of the maneuvering target can be achieved by the designed fully distributed adaptive guidance law. On that basis, a cooperative guidance law with optimal performance is designed, which achieves simultaneous attack and ensures minimum attack error with minimum control and communication cost. The fully distributed adaptive and optimal cooperative guidance law can be combined to apply to a variety of attack scenarios. Numerical examples are provided to validate the effectiveness of the proposed control methods.

KEYWORDS:

• Cooperative attack
• distributed guidance law
• adaptive control
• optimal control

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No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

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Funding

This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China [grant numbers 11332001 and 61773024], Research project fund [grant number 17-163-11-ZT-003-018-01], and Joint fund of the Ministry of Education of China [grant number 6141A020223].