Integrated guidance and control law for cooperative attack of multiple missiles

Distributed cooperative guidance of multiple anti-ship missiles with arbitrary impact angle constraint

“…It should be pointed out that, all of the aforementioned results on the cooperative guidance [6,24,26,27] didn't take the imhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ast.2015.08.002 1270-9638/© 2015 Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.…”

“…The way of individual homing is an open-loop control one, and is not robust to external disturbance, as pointed out in [24]. This motivates the study of another way to achieve simultaneous attack, that is, cooperative homing, in which the missiles rely on the sensing/communication network to exchange information and synchronize the impact time [6,24,26,27]. Zhao et al [24] presented a hierarchical cooperative guidance architecture, and derived both centralized and distributed coordination algorithms to achieve simultaneous attack of multiple missiles based on the impact time control guidance (ITCG) law in [5].…”

“…Feedback linearization technique was used to linearize the nonlinear engagement dynamics, which is a key to facilitate the design of distributed cooperative guidance law. Wang et al [27] also presented an integrated guidance and control strategy for cooperative attack of multiple missiles, in which a cooperative strategy expressed by the desired target look angle command was proposed and a robust controller was designed using dynamic surface control theory to track the desired target look angle command.…”

“…Also, the feedback linearization technique used in [22] is hard to be applied when impact angle constraint presents. Besides, the cooperative strategy presented in [27] is hard to be extended to include the impact angle constraint as well. It should also be pointed out that, all of the aforementioned results on the cooperative homing are derived with rather restrictive sensing/communication topological requirements (i.e., fully-interconnected [6,27], strongly connected and balanced [24], or leader-followers [26]).…”

“…Besides, the cooperative strategy presented in [27] is hard to be extended to include the impact angle constraint as well. It should also be pointed out that, all of the aforementioned results on the cooperative homing are derived with rather restrictive sensing/communication topological requirements (i.e., fully-interconnected [6,27], strongly connected and balanced [24], or leader-followers [26]). However, it is well established that missiles have to fly in a hostile environment, where serious electromagnetic interference (EMI) and interception of anti-air missile can be expected.…”