Distributed cooperative guidance for multi-missile system with time-varying delays and switching topologies

Author(s):  
Siquan Zhou ◽  
Jie Ren ◽  
Yong Heng ◽  
Xiwang Dong ◽  
Qingdong Li
Symmetry ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 941
Author(s):  
Tianhao Sun ◽  
Huiying Liu ◽  
Yongming Yao ◽  
Tianyu Li ◽  
Zhibo Cheng

In this paper, the time-varying formation tracking problem of the general linear multi-agent system is discussed. A distributed formation tracking protocol based on Riccati inequalities with adaptive coupling weights among the follower agents and the leader agent is designed for a leader-following multi-agent system under fixed and switching topologies. The formation configuration involved in this paper is expressed as a bounded piecewise continuously differentiable vector function. The follower agents will achieve the desired formation tracking trajectory of the leader. In traditional static protocols, the coupling weights depend on the communication topology and is a constant. However, in this paper, the coupling weights are updated by the state errors among the neighboring agents. Moreover, the stability analysis of the MAS under switching topology is presented, and proves that the followers also could achieve pre-specified time-varying formation, if the communication graph is jointly connected. Two numerical simulations indicate the capabilities of the algorithms.


2019 ◽  
Vol 123 (1262) ◽  
pp. 464-483
Author(s):  
X.L. Ai ◽  
L.L. Wang ◽  
Y.C. Shen

ABSTRACTThis study focuses on the co-operative salvo attack problem of multiple missiles against a stationary target under jointly connected switching topologies subject to time-varying communication delays. By carefully exploring certain features of the typical pure proportional navigation guidance law, a two-stage distributed guidance scheme is proposed without any information on time-to-go in this study to realise the simultaneous attack of multiple missiles. In the first guidance stage, a co-operative guidance law is proposed using local neighbouring communications only to achieve consensus on range-to-go and heading error to provide favourable initial conditions for the latter phase, in which switching topologies and time-varying communication delays are taken into account when obtaining sufficient conditions of consensus in terms of linear matrix inequalities. Then, missiles disconnect from each other and are guided individually by the typical pure proportional navigation guidance law with the same navigation gain to realise salvo attack in the second guidance phase. Finally, numerical simulations are carried out to clearly validate the theoretical results.


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