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

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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.

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This work was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11332001, 61473005, 91216304).

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  1. State Key Laboratory for Turbulence and Complex Systems, Department of Mechanics and Engineering Science, College of Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China

    Jialing Zhou, Jianying Yang & Zhongkui Li

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

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Keywords

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