Simultaneous attack strategy against a maneuvering target with unknown acceleration. (January 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Hu, Zilun; Yang, Jianying
• Is Part Of: Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. Volume 233:Number 1(2019)
• Page Start: 71
• Page End: 80
• Publication Date: 2019-01
• Subjects: Simultaneous attack -- distributed guidance law -- aircraft control; Aeronautics -- Periodicals; Astronautics -- Periodicals; Airplanes -- Design and construction -- Periodicals; Aerospace industries -- Periodicals; 629.1
• DOI: 10.1177/0954410017727026
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0954-4100

Abstract

This paper is concerning the simultaneous attack problem with multiple missiles against a maneuvering target with unknown acceleration. The new guidance protocol, which avoids using the time-to-go information, ensures the simultaneous attack based on the consensus of the range-to-go and the approaching rate of each missile. This strategy is a distributed guidance law where each missile can only get information from neighbors. The consensus of the missiles is shown mathematically as well as with extensive simulations.