This paper presents a technique to design a PSO guidance algorithm for the nonlinear and dynamic pursuit-evasion optimization problem. In the PSO guidance algorithm, the particle positions of the swarm are initialized randomly within the guidance command solution space. With the particle positions to be guidance commands, we predict and record missiles’ behavior by solving point-mass equations of motion during a defined short-range period. Taking relative distance to be the objective function, the fitness function is then evaluated according to the objective function. As the PSO algorithm proceeds, these guidance commands will migrate to a local optimum until the global optimum is reached. This paper implements the PSO guidance algorithm in two pursuit-evasion scenarios and the simulation results show that the proposed design technique is able to generate a missile guidance law which has satisfied performance in execution time, terminal miss distance, time of interception and robust pursuit capability.
Sampling-based path planning: a new tool for missile guidance
