Cooperative aircraft defense from an attacking missile

Abstract

Abstract-This paper addresses a three-body pursuit-evasion scenario where an Attacker missile using Pure Pursuit guidance pursues a Target aircraft and a Defender missile launched by a wingman aims at intercepting the Attacker before it reaches the aircraft. An optimal control problem is posed which captures the goal of the Target-Defender team, namely, to maximize the separation between Target and Attacker at the instant of capture of the Attacker by the Defender. The optimal control law provides the heading angles for the Target and the Defender team.

Active target defense differential game

“…Our preliminary work [23], [24] considered the cases when the Attacker implements typical guidance laws of Pure Pursuit and PN, respectively. In these papers, the TargetDefender team solves an optimal control problem that returns the optimal strategy for the T − D team so that D intercepts the Attacker and at the same time the separation between Target and Attacker at the instant of interception of A by D is maximized.…”

Cooperative Aircraft Defense from an Attacking Missile using Proportional Navigation

“…These examples also show that, in general, little effort in terms of lateral acceleration is needed by both the Target and Defender, provided the Defender is initially properly positioned. This paper extends the results in [24] where a similar scenario was studied with an Attacker missile using Pure Pursuit (PP) guidance law.…”

Cooperative Strategies for Optimal Aircraft Defense from an Attacking Missile

“…Then, the system of dynamic equations (4-6) can be reduced and the problem can be alternatively analyzed using a two-dimensional state space r and θ. For more details, see [25].…”

“…This scenario was described in [25,26]. In this problem, the target is already flying in a direction to evade the attacker, its potential fired defender will face the additional constraint to perform a 180 deg change of heading and being able to start following a coordinated trajectory that guarantees capture of the attacker.…”

“…Our preliminary results were presented in [25,26]. In the present Note, the cooperative optimal guidance approach is extended to consider a differential game (DG) formulation where the attacker missile solves his optimal control problem to minimize the final separation between itself and the target.…”